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    "id": 369964,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. First and foremost, I would like to thank hon. Tiya Galgalo for having brought this Motion to the House at this timely hour. My amendment is very minimal. I will just like to propose the following amendment to the Motion with the consent of the Mover. I would like that the Motion be amended by deleting the words after the words “the county” appearing in the seventh line and replacing thereof with the following words: “This House urges the Government to speedily establish a Disaster Management Authority to handle, prepare and create awareness of the disasters including rehabilitations of all the facilities and infrastructures destroyed by floods.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to expand the scope of the issues that are to be handled by the Authority because what is being destroyed by floods is not only infrastructure. It covers a lot of areas and ranges from issues like schools, institutions, houses and even lives. On top of that, I would like this Authority also to handle other disasters like fire, accidents, and clashes as my honourable colleague has mentioned. So, it covers a wide area of our country. Disasters are not only confined to particular areas. There are different kinds of calamities in different regions. Therefore, I would like to propose that amendment so that it covers the entire spectrum of disaster in this country. As my honourable friends have said, rainfall in this country is becoming a disaster rather than a source of happiness in many regions. In most areas, hills develop gullies which become temporary rivers. Also, our experts who design roads in this country do not do a good job. The drainage system of this country even in towns is wanting. These people design roads and do not provide for drainages. Most roads in the ASAL regions are gullies now. They have developed temporary rivers and year in, year out during the dry season you cannot---"
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