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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if these Ministries do not have components of disaster risk reduction in their planning and policies, what happens is what happens every year in this country. A crisis is created. Food is not available. The maize crop in the last season failed because we did not look at the necessary information, which must have been available. If information was not available then, it must be made available. So, we always find ourselves dealing with crises. It is unfortunate that the policy on disaster risk reduction continues to lie somewhere in a cabinet. It has not been brought to the Floor of this House. We still have a climate change policy that has also not seen the light of the day on the Floor of this House. It continues to be moved from one Ministry to another. Therefore, what this Motion is talking about will probably help to address those critical issues. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we go to the issue of gender, we have been saying that we have information and data on gender. We have been saying that this information is available, and that it can help us look at critical areas where gender discrimination is being practised. This information may be available at certain levels but it is not available at the national level for everybody to look at, be they in the public or private sector. Certainly, it is not available at the county level. Again, this Motion is speaking critically to the issue of information on gender and development. I like the aspect of gender development, because we are not just looking at representation of women, but how women and men are playing equal participation in development in this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, lastly, I would like to speak about the issue of the youth. The young people of this country are techno savvy. They are people who know how to build very complicated ICT systems which are used internationally. Therefore, we are not lacking people who can come up with this kind of information. The days of Government using physical files are gone. You find that when a Government Ministry wants to look at something, they ask for a file. That is why we are seeing such a mess at the Ministry of Lands. Files are avenues for corruption. A file can disappear and information that is so critical disappears with that file. This Motion is speaking to a web-based spatial data infrastructure, both at the national and county level. What we are saying is that this information will never disappear. This information cannot be used for corrupt purposes. Where land is will be clearly stated and who owns it can be clearly stated. Where you can develop and where you cannot develop will be clearly stated. This can be done by the young people of this country who are trained and who are hungry for work. This is also the way to create work for our young people who are highly trained in ICT. With those remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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