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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamasi",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Lyula Khamasi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister of State for Special Programmes. On Saturday, 11th August, 2007, a terrible and very sad incident took place in a village in Malava Constituency in Kakamega North District. A mudslide on the slopes of Nandi Escarpment took place killing around 20 people. Four days since the incident occurred, only few bodies have been retrieved from the mudslide using very primitive equipment by the people from the Red Cross Society of Kenya and the local population. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the absence of the Government is very conspicuous in this particular area. The little presence of the Government is seen to be completely helpless. They are doing very little or nothing at all. You cannot compare this tragedy to other incidences that have occurred elsewhere. For example, recently, in Cameroon, where a Kenya Airways (KQ) plane crashed, the Government was there in a very short while. It took there all the necessary expertise and all the required assistance. 3138 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 14, 2007 Mr. Speaker, Sir, when a building came down in Nyamakima area here in Nairobi, the Government was there in a big way. It even invited foreign governments to help us with expertise. They went as far as using sniffer dogs to trace the bodies that had been trapped in the rubble. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the same thing happened in 1998 when there was a bomb blast here in Nairobi. Why is the Government so slow? Why is the Government not taking similar measures, particularly in this incident in which about 20 bodies are lying in debris? The Minister should explain why this case is an exception."
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