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    "id": 385693,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me this chance to move a Motion of Adjournment on a very important and sad issue and this is the issue of flooding. We may think that flooding has ended in most parts of the country because the rains have subsided. However, this will happen over and over again. We need, at one point or another, to mitigate and to find sustainable solutions for now and for prosperity. Kenya has had its fair share of disasters; whether natural or manmade. The manmade disasters are different. These are like fires. The natural disasters are like what we have now. These are floods, farming and pest infestation of crops which happen from time to time. Unfortunately, in Kenya, we are moving from one scenario to another. We either have too much rain that causes destruction or too little of it and, therefore, end up with drought. The current flood situation has been recurring every rainy season. The problem has been that the response to this particular issue is very slow and not well timed taking into consideration the suffering of the people. In the last floods we have just had, more than 70 people lost their lives unnecessarily. We have 100,000 other people who have been displaced and who are suffering as a result of that displacement. They are suffering because they cannot make their economic ends meet. Therefore, you can see that to a large extent, floods have real consequences. These are social consequences, for instance, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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