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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Outa",
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick Otieno Outa",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion by my brother, hon. Namwamba. As we speak about Budalangi, I want the House to understand that Budalangi Constituency is a sister to Nyando Constituency. What happens in Budalangi every year happens also in Nyando Constituency. All the victims of floods in Budalangi must be compensated by the Government; so should the people of Nyando. Over the years, the Government has given a deaf year to the problems that the people of Budalangi and Nyando face each year. The poor people try very hard to have food on their tables. The Government is not concerned about the raging floods that come at any moment and wipe away the people's crops and properties. This Government is not serious about taming the floods in both Budalangi and Nyando. For many years, the Government has done a lot of research and has stated that it wants to come up with a good strategy to tame the floods in the two constituencies. Each year, the Government sets aside a lot of money for this purpose. I want this House to understand that billions of shillings have been spent on this research. At the end of that research, everything will be taken to the archives and will be forgotten. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, every now and then, the people of Budalangi and Nyando suffer the consequence of the floods. I do not know how the Government will rate both Budalangi and Nyando in terms of the poverty indexes. I do not know whether the constituencies will be rated as having a minus or a plus poverty index. The consequences of the floods are very severe and they leave the people with no property and even cause loss of lives. The Government has not put in place serious measures, like the ones that I have seen in America, to be up to date with technics of getting early warnings to the people of Budalangi and Nyando. The Government has failed to put measures in place to stop the floods and that is why we are asking it to compensate the victims of the floods in Budalangi for all the years that they have been affected by the floods. This Government must be serious. The Government should implement all its research findings in order to control the floods in Budalangi and Nyando Constituencies. I have realised that there is a conspiracy in this research. The researchers will come, for example, from Japan, collude with the Ministry officials and spend huge sums of money. At the end, they take all the findings to the archives and everything is forgotten Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Government will not be able to convince us that more research is needed to control the floods in both Budalangi and Nyando. The Government must now come out clean and take the necessary measures to stop the floods menace in Budalangi and Nyando, once and for all. If the Government will not put the appropriate measures in place, then it should put Budalangi and Nyando on a special programme, so that each time there are floods in the area, it compensates all the victims. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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