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    "id": 1405136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "happen in the coming one month or two weeks, it was, therefore, expected that yesterday, there would be very heavy rains in Nyandarua. Even as I speak about disaster and response to disaster, we must also speak about averting disasters. If we do open up waterways, if our drainages are not working and if we do not open the routes where water takes its natural course in readiness for coming rains that will be very heavy, then we will always find ourselves in these kinds of situations. Even as we respond to that disaster, there is a way we can try to stop the same disaster. Madam Temporary Speaker, we cannot absolve the county governments of this responsibility. Sen. Cherarkey and I sit in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and we are now interrogating the money that was used by county governments in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 financial years. If you look at the prudence in the money that was used to respond to the COVID-19 disaster, you will understand that we cannot let counties off from this matter. At that time, you would hear that a mask that was retailing for Kshs20 in local retail shops, was being bought at Kshs200 by the county governments. Therefore, we cannot absolve the county governments from this issue. In Nyandarua specifically because I am the Senator for that county, if the county is not deliberate in ensuring that they open the waterways to avert the danger from the water that makes the rivers break their banks, then next year, we shall find ourselves having the same problem. Even in two years, we shall have the same problems. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must be very ready and have an elaborate disaster management programme in our devolved unites so as to ensure that our people are safe, our crops and animals are safe and, ultimately, take advantage of these waters that can be used in future."
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