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    "content": "areas that we have to start thinking about. Some of us think that floods are the most serious or damaging situation. However, there are some people in this country who see floods as a source of income because time has just happened when they can sell their commodities. The biggest problem here is the Ministry of State for Special Programmes. If you ask yourself, what does it do? They try to help people who are displaced. For the last six years now, nothing has happened. A lot of money has been poured, a lot of things have been done, but nothing has happened because it is just a channel of making good money at times. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are also not new people to this country. We know what it is. The Senators are very responsible and mature people. We need to change our way of thinking by starting now to wonder where the solution of “a,” “b”, “c” and “d” is. With a lot of respect to my sister, this Motion will only be read by people in the office or in the newspapers tomorrow. They will forget it the day after tomorrow because it is just a warning that something is happening. Kenyans say “yes, after all, what else?” That is how this Motion will be dismissed because there is nothing to bring the officers concerned to account to tell this House or to tell the country what programme they have. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when there is a fire in Nairobi, it burns everywhere and nobody is capable of putting it off. You have to ask for the assistance of the army and everybody else to come and do it. After that fire is put off, everybody goes back home waiting for another disaster to happen. Time has come when the Government should be called upon to be responsible; to compensate all the people affected by natural causes like floods because it can be stopped. People whose food is destroyed by floods should be paid at the market price. That is the only time that those in authority will start thinking of the need for some billions of shillings to be paid as compensation after the destruction of people’s crops and, sometimes, loss of life. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many people have already died as a result of the floods. We, as the Senate, should compel the Government to do whatever it can to compensate them. Unless we do that, that woman who is calling on the President, who is calling on God every evening, she will continue do so, year in, year out. We are here on her behalf to make sure that she is heard. She can only be heard if she is compensated handsomely to make sure she is happy and she sees the Government in the light that she is supposed to see it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can see that quite a number of our friends want to speak on this Motion. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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