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    "id": 1405146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to support the wise Motion by the Senior Senator, Sen. Agnes Muthama. This country cannot move from floods to drought and vice versa . We are now crying about floods and a few months ago we were crying about drought. This brings me to reflect on our settlement plan as a country. Counties and the national Government should be talking about and implementing spatial plans. In our settlement, there must be marked areas for human settlement and the general environment. Just as other speakers have mentioned, nature is not a respecter of anybody. When rains come and you stand on the path of water, there will be massive floods. With the floods, we have displacement, loss of life and property, and an education that has been disrupted. We also have health services that our people cannot get because of the displacement. Flooding is not only limited to Machakos County, as brought by my senior colleague, Senator Muthama. In Homa Bay County, where I come from, in almost two sub-counties, and to be specific in the Rachuonyo Sub-county, we have women and children who are suffering because they are sleeping in the cold. This is because our governments are not consistently following their plans in the preparedness of our people. Rains were foreseen. It is not an occurrence that just came about. The Meteorological Department had talked about it. Our people knew that the rains would come, but what did the two levels of government do? We only wait to see our people displaced, and to say we allocate funds to mitigate this. I want to support this and insist that rather than allocating funds to mitigate, the two levels of government must now venture into promoting preventative measures that must be put in place in time. In our earlier years, we saw the Ministry of Public Works then prepare communities for the coming rains and floods. In my language, we used to call them"
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