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    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "happens to the victims and all the people who participate in the management of the disaster. Whether it is the fire-fighters or fast responders who go to the scene of that particular disaster. One of the things I have seen in this Bill is the proposal for the establishment of a psycho-social support structure for victims. In my opinion, it should also include responders and those participants at that particular rescue operation. Anytime there is a disaster the psycho-social effect of that disaster on the psyche of the people who get affected directly, their close allies and friends is huge, as you think about this particular Bill, which I am so grateful about, that the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party has brought to the Floor of the House. I request that we think and continue focusing on how to ensure that we take care of the mental health of the victims who get affected by a disaster. We also take care of the mental health of the people who participate in the disaster. I had a conversation recently with a friend who works for Red Cross. They say that every time they are involved in rescuing people from an accident, it takes several months before a person’s mental health is stabilised. They are the ones who go to rescue. They save people from a disaster. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we do not have a system that takes care of those who take care of the people who are affected, we will reduce our capacity to positively engage in disaster management. Therefore, there is the hard work, the structure of ensuring that committees work all the way to county level. There is also the aspect of ensuring that those people who will look up to participate in disaster management are also mentally trained and given mental capacity to know how to deal with it. We need psychologists or psychotherapists on standby to deal with the people who are pulling people out of disaster, for example, or those who are rescuing people or who are doing first aid or first response. This will be something I would think we very seriously need to consider as we move this Bill forward. It is also important for us to define disasters. I want to pick up something my colleague Hon. Sabina Chege has said with regard to the ongoing crisis of fuel which a few of us are terming as a disaster. We are aware that the reason this is going on is that some dealers are hoarding fuel hoping that by the end of tomorrow the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) reorganises its fuel prices, so that they make a kill. It is unfortunate that even in the pursuit of profit we have dealers and traders who are willing to allow Kenyans to suffer inability to move. We have even ambulances and police vehicles which are unable to access fuel because we have a few traders who think they will make a kill in profit by just waiting and hoping that the fuel prices will go up from tomorrow evening. We had made a special request to the Government for the subsidies on fuel to ensure that tomorrow fuel prices are not the kind of things that are going to hurt the Kenyan population. We know the Jubilee Government - I am proud to associate with it - is looking keenly into this issue of shortage of fuel. We will point where we will put the lines we are seeing behind us and go back to availability of fuel moving forward. We plead with the people who trade in fuel to remember that they also have a social responsibility to keep our country moving. I think this also brings up the issue that we might need to look at as a House. We may need to set up a structure that will analyse how traders are dealing with critical basic needs like fuel so that we do not have a situation where somebody can sabotage the ability of the country to move forward. Finally, I ask my colleagues, even as we do politics, to make sure we are not using sensitive issues like these. We have a situation where we are all part and parcel of this Government and especially those who are in Jubilee Government. Let us look for solutions. Let us not use this current crisis as a way of earning bonga points with the population and trying to make political The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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