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    "id": 195241,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I think I have explained so much about the Budalangi floods and what we are doing about that problem. As I have said, the Western Kenya Flood Mitigation Project is being funded by the World Bank. It is a Department in our Ministry which deals with that issue. About man-made disasters, the Government of Kenya, in conjunction with other regional member states, have formed a Regional Disaster Management Centre which deals with early warning. The Government, in its seriousness towards making sure that we are actually prepared early for disasters which have been befalling our country and regions generally, has gone ahead and even acquired a property, where its secretariat is based, in Kileleshwa. Secondly, right now, the Regional Centre for Disaster Management of Excellence has even been registered at the United Nations level. It is supposed to deal with these issues. There is a lot of interest from our Government, member states and our development partners, to make sure that RDMCE becomes the centre which will deal with the problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on man-made disasters like, for example, the problem that we experienced earlier in the year following the elections, the Government of Kenya put all the stakeholders from all the Ministries there. Even Permanent Secretaries are included there. They were not represented before. They sat in a Humanity Services Committee which immediately sprung into action. That is why we were able to deal with the emergency at the beginning. We also have a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) when we are dealing with emergency operations. It is referred to as IMO. It deals with arid areas in northern Kenya. Usually, the emergency operation is to make sure that those people are always taken care of in terms of food. Thank you."
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