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    "content": "ensure we are able to manage disaster when it occurs and come up with institutions which can prevent repercussions from disasters. When it is natural disaster, we should be able to be prepared to prevent those extreme conditions that will make our people suffer. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am thinking about floods. We have had floods year in, year out. You will find situations where every year we are talking about so many people losing their lives and property, and being rendered homeless after the floods. Therefore, it is important that the Government, through the proposed Disaster Management Authority, avails adequate resources, so that we can see how we can build dykes as we did in Budalangi. This is the second year round without floods disaster; we should ensure that we do not have the same from Tana River, Nyando River and other areas. Again, harvested rain water can be used later during the dry season. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we need the proposed Disaster Management Authority because the Government gets too busy dealing with day-to-day challenges of life, management and the implementation of projects. Therefore, it forgets about disaster until it happens. We need a management authority that will be dealing with nothing else, but management and prevention of disaster. Besides natural calamities that come our way, we also have other calamities that are man-made and we have to deal with them every single day. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have terrorism that has now become a real threat to our country. We have so many other calamities that come our way. We need to raise awareness and be alert in order to notice behaviour that is not normal amongst the people living with us, or amongst strangers who may be a threat to communities. There is need to create awareness. One other thing that bothers us every now and again when we have famine is that we see livestock die in large numbers in the pastoralist areas. With a disaster management authority we could work with the Department of Livestock to ensure that farmers are alerted about impending famine. We could then buy off these livestock from its owners in good time and deliver them to the Kenya Meat Commission. We do not have to wait until they die. I think it is important that this becomes a day to day activity of the management authority that will be established. We need to take advantage of the training that is taking place in certain universities. We have graduates who are graduating with disaster management skills. They need to be employed and their skills used by the Government so that we take care of the disasters that keep on harming our people every day. I believe that the time has come for a disaster management authority to be established; we hope that the Government will take this Motion seriously. I am sure we are going to pass it today. The Government should establish this authority and should not treat this Motion like all other Motions that we pass and nothing is done. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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