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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": "risk management activities at the county level. It gives information either to the national office or the county governor's office for mitigation of risk and response to disaster. Clause 5 contains the financial provisions, which include the funds of the Authority, annual estimates, as well as accounts and audit of the Authority. This is where I disagree greatly with our colleagues in the National Assembly, with tremendous respect to them. They are the House that handles the budget. They know the fiscal difficulties that this country continues to have, yet they send to this House a Bill that creates an extra Authority, without deference to what you do with the other institutions that are already doing work that is similar to this. I expected that a House that interacts with the budget of the Republic of Kenya, appreciating the difficulty and the challenges that we are in presently as a country to, at least, have accompanied--- because finances are not infinite. These resources are scarce. If you are putting finances to a place, then it follows naturally that another place must lose. It is this idea that resources are infinite. I am sorry to say this, but there is lack of appreciation on our colleagues in the National Assembly that there is a limit to which you can create authorities and continue to charge the Exchequer, without putting a strain to the economy of this Republic. Madam Temporary Speaker, I expect that any time you propose an authority or to remove it, unless there is no other authority or state agency, including a ministry that speaks or addresses matters that are being proposed in that agency and because it is an addition on one side and a subtraction on the other, these resources have become scarce. Therefore, I expect a lot of work to be done on Part V of the Bill by Members of our Committee. Part VI contains miscellaneous provisions on the protection of information held by the Authority and county committees. These also create offenses and prescribes penalties there too. I have seen an example when the national Government has issued directives. You remember that here in Nairobi, which Sen. Sifuna represents, there are many people that died along the banks of Nairobi River when it burst its banks. When the Government issued directives the other day that we need to move people who are living within the river bank, you find some third-grade politicians, some occupying very high offices in this country reducing it to be an issue about tribe. How tragic can it be? I do not think that the people who died in the April belong to any particular tribe. Those are Kenyans and we expect that any responsible leader will guide those people and tell them that they are endangering their lives. Let the Government provide alternative places for those people to live. Those are the offenses that are being referred to in this particular Bill after identifying the risk. It is also dangerous for you to be informed that there is a risk here do not occupy a particular part and you continue to defy. We must provide sanctions to Kenyans who want to continue to do such things, or even institutions, that continue to endanger the lives of people. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is only in Nairobi and in this country where you find a government agency or a government department, going ahead to dig a huge trench on a part of a road where citizens are used to passing, with no warnings and they leave The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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