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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "keen to ensure that no bone of a person will be left on that site. The company that got itself, the polluter, of course, was responsible, catering for every expense. This gentleman in Solai, Mr. Perry Mansukh is a hero for nothing. He should be taking care of the expense of restoring the environment. Why is this Bill important and the concept? It is not just the preparedness, but it is also about post recovery. You must go to Ofafa Jericho and sort of counsel those children. I am a chairman of a school in Nairobi City County. These boys became cleverer than they should be and caused a fire in the dorm. What they did not realise was that we had installed CCTV and we watched all of them do whatever they wanted to do. It was extremely traumatising to see one boy who was left behind and was struggling to get out, but miraculously survived. The family was so traumatised and he was transferred to another school. This Bill proposes even post-trauma counseling. There was one of the victims of the Solai Dam tragedy. This gentleman told me that he lost his wife and his children did not want to live in Solai again. Although Red Cross built homes for them, they did not want to go and live there again. This gentleman became so dependant that he could not even know how to boil water. He described it in such a way because of the trauma of losing his wife. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a report in Solai about two boys; one Kalenjin and one Kikuyu, who in the process of being carried by water they hanged on a tree stump and survived. Therefore, they watched as some of their family members and others being swept away. What do you think goes on in the minds of those young Kenyans every time there are floods? Sen. Sakaja talked about hydrants. When we were growing up, there were hydrants in Nairobi. The idea of running out of water is like living in stone age. The Nairobi Dam was supposed to take care of fires; that is why it is next to Kibera. We are supposed to be prepared. There is no reason why the Nairobi Fire Brigade is on Tom Mboya Street when the fires are happening in Kibera and Gikomba. It is illogical. There is no reason why the Government budgets for Kshs7 billion in what they call contingencies yet when there is a disaster, there are no ambulances or fire brigades. We have included even non-State actors because an organization like the United Nations (UN) management framework team sits in Nairobi City Country. It is for that reason that Sen. Sakaja and I got maximum public participation. I must confess that the gentleman who initially proposed this Bill, did it in 2005. Can you imagine that this Bill has been in the pipeline since 2005? The initial Bill that he proposed was adopted by Ethiopia. I recently met that man because our children go to the same school. He has now been poached and works in Ethiopia on disaster management. I also met another young gentleman from Nandi County in Japan who went there to study architecture. That man is in charge of disasters in Japan; his work is to design buildings to take care of earthquakes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we live by grace that we do not have some of the natural disasters that occur in other countries such as hurricanes, earthquakes and so"
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