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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, are you timing me? You are my Chairperson in the Mediation Committee. I wish anything that takes away the lives of our people could be declared a national disaster. In the same way, we saw the magnitude of handling COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster. This is when we expect these floods to be treated in the same magnitude as any invasion in the country. We wish we could have seen people in the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, led by Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya, updating the country on the happenings. There are Senators like Sen. Mungatana whom I am emphasizing, who, like in Migori County, is facing challenges because of floods and disasters in his county, which are not brought to national awareness. I know several Senators who are affected in different counties. I come from Migori County, one of the rural counties that does not get a proper spotlight on the effects of the floods. Sometimes, people think these floods happen only in well-developed infrastructure. However, the disruption of infrastructure in rural communities is massive. For instance, if you go to Nyatike, you will find that people in places like Luanda, Konyago and Modi do not have a life. If this was declared a national disaster, a place like Luanda, Modi and Kabuto in Nyatike would be considered for serious interventions like building dykes and polders in those areas. In places like Uriri, in North Kanyamkago, which is a ward in Uriri Constituency- --"
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