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    "speaker_name": "Sigor, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Lochakapong",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. On behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, the Member for Kikuyu Constituency, I take this opportunity to reply. First, I thank all the Members who got opportunity to contribute. We have taken their concerns and contributions. In the next stage, we are going to critically look at their contribution and see how to incorporate the issues they have raised while debating this Bill. I also take this opportunity to thank Members of the Committee on Regional Development for doing a good job. Of course, wherever they are, they have also seen the concerns of Members. They have also made proposals, having gone through the Report and the Bill. I think I have seen Members talk about definitions that we need to recheck. From you, I have also heard that we need to relook at Clause 33 and the many other proposals Members have given. As a Committee, we also proposed amendments to this Bill. We will bring them during the next stage together with what Hon. Members have proposed. We will look at it again then come back here and agree as a House, on how we are going to move forward. However, it is evident that a majority of the Members have supported this Bill. From their contributions, this Bill would not have come at a better time than now. I sincerely commend and thank them for their support. Of course, we need to address the issues they have raised. I think it is welcomed. Disasters have been managed from various quarters in this country. An example is the landslide in West Pokot the other time. It struck Sigor Constituency, parts of Pokot South and other regions of this country. The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) mainly did the response. In some other instances, it was very difficult for agencies and well-wishers to access areas with landslides. It was very difficult. Hon. Temporary Speaker, coming up with this Bill, which seems to provide a legal framework for co-ordination of disaster risk management, is a good thing. As it is now, the KDF does it. There is also a disaster operation centre at the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. We have an agency like the Kenya Red Cross and others. It is important that we have a legal framework so that all the actors involved in disaster risk management get coordinated and take stock of even the actors in disaster risk management. We have even proposed in this Bill that we are going to have a register of all the actors and players who do something about disaster. The Fourth Schedule to the Constitution provides that disaster management is a shared function between the two levels of government. That is, the national government and the county governments. That is why we have proposed a National Disaster Risk Management Authority. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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