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"content": "governments that planned for these events in advance. I would like to single out my county where advanced planning was done, and because of that, many lives have been saved. The response has been good so far. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we experience normal flooding in Tana River County. Nobody complains about the flooding that comes from the river because that is part of the riverine ecosystem where we expect the river to flood for part of the time, and then when the water recedes, people can plant and harvest their crops. This has been a traditional way of farming, where we wait for the flooding of the river that brings in alluvial soils from up in the highlands. We are normally able to deal with the farming downstream. This is not what is happening at this time. The amounts of water that have come are too heavy. Initially, the weatherman had said that we would receive excessive rain. Later on, he apologized to Kenyans and said that it was not excessive rain, but it was in fact, El Nino. We are calling upon the national Government to intensify efforts to rescue people in various places. We know that food, water and medication has been sent to some of our counties, including Tana River County. However, there are specific issues that affect certain wards such as Wayu, Kone, Asa, and parts of Garsen Central wards. Further, there are areas in the north such as Pamba, where the roads have been cut off. There are no supplies going to those areas. In Kone and Asa, there was a crime that was committed; people fought and somebody died. However, the police officers could not evacuate the body to do the normal processes because the rains have disconnected the way to those areas. People are suffering and one of the things that we want to ask the national Government to do, which the county government is not capable of doing, is to provide helicopters to those areas that have been cut off. You will find that in the northern areas, army helicopters have been supplying food to areas that have been cut off. We saw the Cabinet Secretary visiting those areas yet right inside Tana River County, which is a neighbour in the north, has not received the kind of support that is required. We are therefore using the Floor of this House to ask the national Government, first to double the efforts in supplying foodstuffs, temporary shelter, medicines and fresh water to various people who have been affected by these floods. Secondly, we want choppers to be deployed to various places, in particular Kone, Asa and Wayi wards, where there has been no form of support. Our people in those areas are facing a real threat of starvation because the only roads that go to those places are now completely inaccessible. Using the Floor of this House, we are asking the Government beef up security for the people who have relocated from the lower Tana Basin to higher areas because, where they have gone are new areas. If those people are given security where they are settling because now they are sleeping outside; they are not in their homes; they are not where they used to be. We pray for security to be beefed up for where they are in the new area. We are also asking the national Government to create a special program, what I will"
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