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    "id": 1414214,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1414214/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Suzanne Kiamba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. While I think it is in order to have the National Disaster Risk Management Authority, I wish to raise a few concerns. One of them is the fact that we work very hard in this country to create many structures. We have many of them that end up having no budget or money to do what we wish them to do. For example, on issues of water, you will find Tanathi Water Works Development Agency, Athi Water Works Development Agency, Water Resources Management Authority (WRMA) and around three others. However, the budget against the programmes is quite wanting. For example, disaster risk management is under a particular ministry. The institutional capacity within the ministry is also very weak. Why should we continue creating more structures while we have institutionalised structures that do not have capacity? The moment we create a structure, it will attract a budget. We are living at times in this country when money is very scarce. I see a new budget coming up when I sit and listen to debate about this Bill. I am wondering when we will have money for the outcomes we want to deliver in this country if we continue making many budgets overheads. I also find it very interesting because disaster happens occasionally, and not every day. You must have a budget to be taken care of every month the moment you create an authority. Disaster should be mainstreamed because we have health, water, food and security related disasters. In my view, an authority is so much an overhead. We need a department to mainstream risk and disaster management. That way, we will reduce the cost of managing these disasters right from the national level to the county level. Otherwise, we will have so many structures with no money to enable them deliver the outcome we want for our people"
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