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    "id": 1414184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "current Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration claims that because of weather, while he has choppers and navigation equipment, he cannot access a certain place. We want to find ourselves well-prepared. I agree with the Committee's Report that in hindsight, there are certain changes that we can make to this Bill. I agree with them on the deletion of some clauses like 5, 6 and 7 that touch on the establishment of an intergovernmental council that will comprise ten members. I thank the Committee and the Chairperson, Hon. Lochakapong. I agree with them. We will support their proposed amendments during the Committee of the whole House. I support the Bill. I also thank the many Members who have spoken in support of it. Finally, the establishment of authorities and Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) in the government is at the fore of our national conversation today, courtesy of the huge burden that we have bestowed on the Exchequer on account of the management and running of state-owned enterprises. During the Committee of the whole House, we must ensure that the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is very lean and has more of a coordinating role, but not one that creates more bureaucracies to get money from the Exchequer. It should be a very lean body that ensures that most of the money that will be appropriated towards disaster management goes to disaster mitigation, management and post- disaster recovery, but not into the bureaucracies of running state-owned enterprises or SAGAs. With those many remarks, I beg to support the Bill."
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