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    "id": 1418855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "Unfortunately, today in our country and in our order of national security priorities, the effect of climate change is assuming a very crucial and an important ranking in those priorities. The people we have lost in the last one month in this country are almost 80 percent of all the people we have lost to terrorism in the last 10 years. That is how serious the climate crisis is and yet, the rains are not over. Directly to what the Senator for Embu has said, we want to ask leaders, influencers, politicians and all other people in positions of authority and influence to desist politicizing or even inciting the public, especially when security alerts and security orders are issued. They are for public safety. They are not for politics or for other things. We hope that this is the last time we are going to have our people being carried away by raging waters when they are sleeping at home. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have issued directives on recovery of all riparian rivers and other fragile ecosystems. Those are security directives. They are not requests and we will deal with any leader who tries to interfere with security operations the same way we deal with other leaders who threaten our national security. As I have already said, this matter is costing us so much pain and death. It is now equivalent to what terrorism, banditry and other serious crimes are doing to Kenya. The orders that are issued for public safety are mandatory and they are not political, sectarian and they should not be trivialized by leaders going to incite communities, telling them to stay there until what happens. This is because, you will endanger the lives of families who might get carried away by raging floods and you will be nowhere to answer when those families are crying. Very soon in the course of the day, the Government will be announcing on how we should be responding on long-term basis to confront the climate crisis before it destroys our country. We are already at 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) and the resources we have produced have already been taken over by our response expenditure to try and mitigate loss of life and property. I submit."
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