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    "id": 1354585,
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    "speaker_name": "Thika, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion now that it has rained like never before. I think the whole country is experiencing El Nino . We were warned by the Meteorological Department and we knew that El Nino was coming. The 22 per cent and the 10 per cent allocations should have been released early enough to help in road maintenance. We do not have to wait for damages. As we speak, there are children in these areas who are sitting for exams. How can they be compared with children who live in comfortable places and wake up very early in the morning to go and sit their exams? There are children who do not even know whether they will make it to school to sit their exams. From where I stand, in the National Assembly, where I oversee the Ministry of Social Protection, where children belong, I want to state that children are suffering. If you watch news every evening, you will see that children are suffering – those who are sitting exams and the young children who cannot stay in the houses or go outside. From a bird’s eye view, you will see counties that are so flooded you may think they are lakes or oceans but these are supposed to be dry land. Because of poor drainage, people are suffering everywhere. In my constituency, there is a place called ‘Gicikii’ where people have had to move to other places because of floods. They were woken up at night when their beds got wet because water had already penetrated their houses. Those people are suffering. We should not wait any longer because we do not know when the rains will stop. Yesterday, it rained the entire night until morning. It still rained the entire morning. Our water drainage system is blocked everywhere. An urban town like Thika is still in problem because there is water all over. With these rains, a lot of water on our roads will definitely damage them. Why do we have to wait until this happens? If at all we were not warned, that could have been something else. We were, however, told that it was going to rain heavily. Our nation came from COVID-19 to drought and now to El Nino . We are stuck here. I want to request for food to be released. The National Treasury should treat this as a national disaster and release food to the families that are affected. We also need to fix the roads because coming to work is a problem, whether in the morning or evening. People sleep on the other side of their homes because they cannot access them. Let us not wait for damages. Let us act now. We can no longer handle the situation. We still have time. As a nation, we must come 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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