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    "content": "affected the reopening of the second term, where, everyone was holding their breath to see how that manmade hurricane or cyclone that was supposed to hit the coastal part of Kenya was going to play out. We thank God for being good to us. The intensity of the cyclone reduced out in the high seas and we were not affected. Those are the grand disasters that sometimes people think about, but disasters can manifest in the form of fire. It could be fire that has burnt down shops in a marketplace. In Rodi Kopany Town in Homa Bay County, a few weeks ago, fire razed down a number of shops belonging to small-scale business people. Even though the county government attempted to respond by sending fire engines, they ran out of water and extinguishing materials. It was quite an embarrassment because they had to be refilled. By the time they were refilled, the fire had already done what we feared it should not do. Disasters can represent itself in the form of flooding that affect my people every rainy season. We head to the area of Karachuonyo bringing in aid, support and assistance. We find families that have been chased from their homes because they have been flooded. You find in-laws, parents, children, adult men and daughters, sleeping on the floor of a classroom. You find people set up in camps without proper sanitation, food, medication and protection against the mosquitoes that obviously are there whenever it floods. Madam Temporary Speaker, recently, when the President came to my region, we made it clear that to avoid this annual disaster of flooding, the solution is simple; build dams upstream. The colonial government identified the areas where these dams should be. One dam should be in the area of Magwagwa in Nyamira County. Dam the area and control the flow of water. When you have a dam, you can generate electricity, do irrigation and create employment so that we do not have to send our children out of the country to do menial jobs. Madam Temporary Speaker, those are some of the things we were discussing yesterday as far as job creation is concerned. We challenge the President to set up the next dam in Konoin or up the hills of Kericho because it is the floods that come from the hills of Kericho that then affect the people of Kisumu County. The rains that come from the Magwagwa area affect the people of Homa Bay County. The solutions are simple, the solutions have been quantified, the designs have been done and all that is needed is a government that can prioritize the needs and the lives of the people of that region. However, because you have dithered and continue to procrastinate from Independence to date, we have got a disaster every year. I want to call these manmade disasters. I do not want to call them natural disasters anymore because God has given us the wisdom, the knowledge and the foresight on what to do to prevent them. This Bill proposes that we collapse all those other entities that I have talked about so that we have one national disaster risk management authority. Yesterday, the Majority Leader and the Majority Whip were commenting that we are creating a new entity. However, a proper reading of this Bill and the reports that the House has done in the past is that we are collapsing the various desks, units, operation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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