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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I come from Muhoroni Constituency which was hived from the old Nyando Constituency. The area is known in the country to be predominately flood-hit areas. We have perennial floods that come second to Budalangi floods. I think Muhoroni and Nyando constituencies combined are affected more than Budalangi. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a Motion we must support and ensure that it is passed and not only passed, but we must ensure that it is implemented to the letter. I am saying so because we have had policy frameworks in this country and there was a time the Government promised a lot of things. If the Government of the day promises something then the Government coming must follow up and see whether such promises were implemented. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we were told that there would be water at every doorstep by the year 2000. The year 2000 came and it was a farce. It never happened and the Jubilee Government also came on the platform of trying to alleviate the sufferings of the citizenry. They promised that they would do what was not done by the previous Governments. One of the promises was to make sure that the lives of Kenyans are easy by making sure that their women do not have difficulties going to fetch water far. They also promised that floods are not going to ravage our lands and that they would make ample use of land. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not know why in this country we always behave as if everything is an emergency. We have to wait until floods wreck havoc in a particular area and then you see the kind of attention and expenditure used. The Government of the day will go all the way up to the site where the devastation has occurred. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am saying so because early this year, my constituency, alongside Nyando and Nyakach were hit by ravaging floods. I tried to knock bigger doors and they were able to open very easily and I was promised assistance. Serious Government officers came on the ground. They gave solutions which started from food, blankets, health facilities and other promises. They promised that was a temporary measure. They said that upon subsiding of the floods, they were going to make a tour again and ensure that the dams were built and the flood menace ravaging the Kano Plains and its environs would be mirage. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thought that because it was in the Jubilee Government, which is the Government built on the framework of “ sema na kutenda ” that something would be done. But my hopes were dashed when nothing was done. The bridges that were swept away by floods and roads that were badly damaged were captured and brought to the attention of Government officers. Requests were made to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the engineers requested for some money. When I followed up the matter - of course, the Ministry of Special Programmes which was in-charge at that time is now dissolved, we have the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure - I was told that there was no money. All the funds that were devoted towards this course were taken to a province which had not been badly hit as our province and which had no constituency as badly hit as Muhoroni and Nyando. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the time of addressing this House, there are no bridges and roads are impassable. The roads are damaged and yet we have a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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