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    "id": 286309,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/286309/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in view of the cross- cutting nature of the Question and the high priority that the Government attaches to disaster risk management, the Minister of State for Special Programmes referred this Question to me and I agreed to answer it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Articles 58 and 132 of our Constitution recognise the occurrence of national disasters as one of the grounds for deterioration of state of emergency. The Government considers disaster risk reduction as one of its critical duties in supporting sustainable development. Indeed, Article 10 of our Constitution lists sustainable development as one of our core national values and principles of governance. The Government has put in place a combination of institutions, laws, strategies and mechanisms for international co-operation to deal with disasters. Disasters are either national or man made in their occurrence. Kenya’s disaster profile includes droughts, desertification, floods, landslides, earthquakes and volcanic activities, terrorist attacks, civil conflicts, fires, accidents from industrial and menial activities, oil spills, collapse of buildings and other engineering infrastructure, HIV/AIDS and other endemic diseases, livestock and wildlife diseases, transport accidents, lightning, pests infestation, abuse of drugs and alcoholic substances, invasion by alien space ships and dumping of hazardous waste. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government published in the year 2006 its disaster risk reduction strategy for the period 2006 and 2016. I table a copy of the publication."
}