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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I watched a very sad prayer session on video of children from the DRC. Young children were speaking that Bakongo Swahili bana ba kongo and their kind of Swahili. Kenyans like to find a lot of jokes in it because of the kind of intonations. This one was a very sad one because the young people were calling upon God and the Holy Spirit to intervene in the hearts of these leaders that they may not die. I was really moved. I thought sometimes people involved directly in the conflict; soldiers, political players and those who support these people forget that there are other victims to these conflicts, including the children. That was an extremely apt presentation of what children go through. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to use the floor of this Senate to appeal to all the players in this DRC conflict to find a way to see it through the eyes of those children that they need peace like yesterday. It will be a very sad occasion if the Great Lakes region, particularly the East African community, fail to find an amicable solution to the problems that are affecting the DRC. Finally, as I sit down, we must continue to make all efforts to assist climate resilience plans to support what is being done in terms of climate mitigation because these things are real. I was looking at the news that were running the other day and we saw that Kirinyaga County sinking with a lot of flooding because there has been high precipitation in that area. Our people down the Tana River are very worried right now that if the areas of the mountains have too much rain, they start packing their things to move from the lower grounds. Nobody compensates them or plans for our populations on how they will move and where they will eat. As we are talking now, the river is flooding. The national and county governments do not seem to have answers for our people. When we talk about even planning for climate mitigation, where are the national and county governments? We can now see that Kirinyaga County was flooding because of the rainfall. This water is all coming down all the way to the Tana River County. What are the plans? You do not see the Governor or the Minister in charge of agriculture in our county speaking about this. We do not see any plans; we are just there waiting. As it always happens, we are sleeping in the night, but then all of a sudden, we start seeing things floating within our rooms and then we realize the river has broken its banks. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I pray that even our local administration will do what has been agreed in this international forum. This international forum has said we must always prepare adequately because of climate change. I pray that our local administration, our county government, will wake up to its responsibilities. Let us not wait for the river to destroy lives and property for you to move them out. Let us start dealing with the problems early enough. This is part of what the Senate was learning during this trip that was led to Zambia at the international forum of the Great Lakes region by our team that went there. With those many remarks, I thank you and support this Report."
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