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    "id": 1414160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": "Therefore, we do not need to look at this as a disaster but in terms of how well we are prepared because signals were sent. In my view, this is not a disaster but a crisis in waiting. We have been told that floods are likely to happen because it will rain until June. What is the level of preparedness; why do we want bureaucracy to address a crisis? We have been forewarned, so we need to take care of a crisis and not a disaster. When we look at a disaster in the direction of an emergency, some of these bureaucracies are unnecessary. We need spot on reporting systems that can respond to emergencies. Some Members are taking disasters to be crises which we need to prepare for and others as emergencies. If we look at them as emergencies as a nation, we are less prepared. Emergencies do not need bureaucracy but spot on responses. Structures must be put in place for a crisis we are forewarned about and indicators clearly show it will take place. This requires a plan in terms of disaster management. Sometimes, issues of disasters require immediate low-level response. We constantly talk about the need to have a national council. How do you respond to a disaster in a village through a national council? How do you respond to small and little disasters that happen in a school or community through a national office, agency or bureaucracy? We immediately need to separate the issues of crisis from disasters and emergencies. This way, we shall establish proper infrastructure for responding to them. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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