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    "content": "experience in this country, we have not been able to feed ourselves. The issue of drought management relates directly to the issue of flood management. If this Authority executes its mandate and is able to have the powers that it has been given to mitigate floods and drought and help this country to have the relevant information, they should come up with tailor-made policies, specific to certain counties according to those counties climatic challenges that will help manage drought and help those counties and other authorities know what kind of crops to grow. This will also help us to mitigate against drought and floods. It will also help to increase food security and make the nation work closely according to the mandate they were given to enter into association as given in Section 6(c). They have been given express authority to enter into association with other bodies or organizations within or outside Kenya. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in this authority alone, we can have facilitation or a platform to engage with countries elsewhere that have mitigated against drought. We are seeing very interesting scenarios in countries that could be referred to as deserts but they feed themselves and we sometimes run to them for help. If they have been given this authority to engage with any organization within or outside Kenya, then they should draw from those kinds of experiences to help us have our own mitigation. They have also been allowed express authority to support research and to work closely with research institutions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to spend a lot of time belabouring, if you read the mandate and the powers given to this Authority under Sections 5 and 6, you will realize that--- Let me just take time to read one:- One of the mandates that they have been given is to exercise overall coordination over all matters relating to drought management. They have simply been given a platform to coordinate all policies and pieces of legislation contained elsewhere in this country so that we have one platform of engagement. In Clause 5(c), they have been given the authority to implement those policies. If you read Clause 5(e) regarding the facilitation of national and county level drought contingency processes, they now have the authority to synthesize that information and have them made into specific policies which are relevant to specific counties. The mandate is so extensive that if you read the extensive powers that they have been given, for example, in Clause 6(c) and (f) which I have just made reference to, it says that appropriate action should be taken aimed at minimizing drought. That, coupled with the power to sue and to be sued, it means that when this Authority starts to operate, it can sue anybody who is not complying with the policies that they will have set forth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in this Authority we are going to deal with not just mitigating against drought but also against floods and also helping us to be food secure. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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