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    "id": 1102929,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1102929/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The 9/11 Attack was being commemorated the other day. There is a documentary on Netflix where people are being told this is what you are actually supposed to do. Now they are doing those drills. Today if a plane flew into a building in this City, God forbid, do you know what to do? Do you know how to behave? Are our children being taught how to behave in schools in case of a disaster? Through this Bill we are creating an entity that is supposed to coordinate all of that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we really hope that we will get the support of Members to pass this Bill. This Bill will be very consequential. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I am sure he will go into further details of how we intend for the national and county to coordinate and how the coordination will be within the national level. I thank our teams from both our offices together with the Office of the Clerk and with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and all these other agencies that came and gave us one or two ideas that we hope we have incorporated. We asked the public to participate in improving this Bill. Let us then change how as a country we deal with disasters. It is talking about disaster plans, how you mitigate and even create a fund. We have not created the fund, otherwise our noisy neighbours will say it is a Money Bill. We have provided a provision for the Cabinet Secretary (CS) through the Public Finance Management Act to create that fund so that when it happens, there is no lack of resources. There are many ways to do it. If you look at all the levies people are being charged, it is very terrible. I have made noise about it in Nairobi City County. Today Nairobi businesspersons in stalls are being charged almost ten different levies. They are told to pay Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) and Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK) for music. The worst is that if you have a shop in Nairobi, you are told to pay Kshs4,500 for fire license. That Kshs4,500 you pay, you are just given a certificate. How will that help the fire? Even if they were charging them Kshs4,500 then they give you a fire extinguisher for that amount at least it will help. How does having a certificate help you in your stall here on Moi Avenue? You paid and you were given a document showing that you paid for fire. It does not make sense. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will bring that issue of these levies in another matter because my people are now being harassed completely. I have seen women being bundled into these vehicles by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) because they have not paid Kshs50 on the market. It is the KRA who are now doing it. On this one on a disaster matter such as fire, why give someone a document? You should make sure they have complied with it. In fact, if I find you with a fire extinguisher, my work is to teach you how to use it to make sure you have ways to get out in case of a disaster. Many of the places where we have watched houses burning a fire engine cannot get there because of encroachment on the roads. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, no one is focusing on how to deal with that. I thought my good friend and sister, Hon. Anne Kananu who is now the acting Governor of Nairobi City County would have really put this front and centre. She was the Chief Officer in charge Disaster Management before she became the deputy governor. There"
}