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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "folding up. Otherwise, if we continue with this practice, to the best of my account, we have more than 350 state agencies. You even wonder what they are doing. We have county governments, ministries and state departments. I want to challenge the Committee that is considering this legislation, to particularly point out and establish many of these institutions that we are trying to help them coordinate and come together on the transitional amendments that shall come out of this Bill. We need to wound up those institutions so that even that can be part and parcel of this institution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we keep on talking about the wage bill and the struggle that we are talking about a few minutes ago on why we are not creating jobs locally. It is because it is extremely expensive to run the Government of Kenya. Part of the reason that makes it expensive to run Government is because of recurrent expenditure. We are employing too few people at the expense of million others. I hope that when our committees retire to bring a report to this House on this particular Bill, they will be guiding the House towards the merger of different agencies. I know there are different agencies that respond to the various disasters such as national drought and so on. If we are creating an agency, then all those institutions must be folded up and come into this one institution that responds to disasters. The Bill further seeks to establish the county disaster risk management committees in each of our counties, as the role of disaster risk management is a shared function between the national and county governments under the Fourth Schedule of our Constitution. That is a fact because there are certain disasters that occur at the county level, which our county governments have ability to assess the risk and mitigate. The main premise of this Bill is to approach disaster risk management in a manner that seeks to respond to effectively in a timely manner to any disaster and to prevent the adverse effects of disaster recovery as far as possible and the livelihood of the communities that are affected by these disasters."
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