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    "content": "The other issue, of course, Mr. Speaker, Sir, is that a lot of these countries, whenever a disaster of some manner happens and relief is needed, within a few days, you will find them offering this and that, and their military personnel will be all over the place, including military personnel who are coming to rescue people who have perhaps been injured, and so on. So, you will find their medical battalions are there also. So, the way I see it is that we need to expand this Motion so that we urge the Government to seek opportunities for our training. I would also like to take the House back – I think it was sometimes during the 8th Parliament when a disaster happened. I think it rained a lot and some bridge was swept away somewhere in Ukambani, and we needed a bridge quickly as a country. The people who were called upon to do that were our own engineering battalion in the Kenya Army, who were supposed to go and put up a bailey bridge. In engineering terms, a bailey bridge is a bridge which is made in the factory, kept in a godown and when you need it, because it is made of steel and it is just a matter of bolts and so on, we just need lorries to carry it, put it there, bolt it quickly and the bridge is there. That bridge was installed a month after the rains had gone and so we no longer needed it. This is because the people who were doing it perhaps had done all the classroom work but they had not gotten field experience. So, with these few words, I would like to urge the House to see that angle of the Motion and pass it. With those few words, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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