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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": "ourselves out of work. I did not know that he loves his job that much. I now know what to do if I want people to concentrate. In the last few days, we have been speaking about presence in the House. Very soon, we will also introduce certain clauses which will make people sit here. They are likely to pass it and later on reflect back and ask who put it in law. Such things have happened in our Parliament. I appreciate the thoughts that have gone to this Bill. I concur with many of the thoughts that there is a lot that can be done to improve and make this Bill better. I share in the very valid concerns that I spoke to in raising this Bill. This is a National Assembly Bill. I spoke off the disagreement with their proposal to create an entity without wounding up certain entities that do similar roles. This is because the overall idea and thinking of a Senate for so many years on disaster response has been lack of a proper coordination in this effort. We have been quite clear as the Senate that when creating an entity such as this, you need an institution that will bring together all the players and stakeholders. This is to have a sort of a national command centre that will have representatives, say, from different stakeholders like the fire department and divers. If it is weather related disasters like floods or drought, they all coordinate mitigation measures sitting under one roof, under the command of a disaster response expert, who will give the mitigation measures as well as the response. The same can be replicated across all our 47 counties. I thank colleagues who have spoken on this Bill. I hope that when the Committee returns its verdict on the proposed amendments, they will guide this House towards that direction. That is why I continue to plead with our chairpersons to do a decent job at the committee level. We do not have any other better mechanism in the legislative process. The most important part is the amendments. That is why in my time as the Senate Majority Leader, I strive never to disagree with committees because I know that they do a far more thorough job than we can do during debate and Committee of the Whole. This is because they go clause by clause, listen to stakeholders and interact with them and deeply internalize these Bills. I hope that the Committee that will consider this Bill will guide us in taking into consideration the concerns of colleague Senators in making this legislation better. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those very many remarks, I beg to reply. In accordance to Standing Order No. 66 (1), I beg to request that you defer the putting of question on the Bill until a later date. I thank you, Madam Speaker."
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