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    "id": 595628,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and thank my friend Sen. Haji, with whom I get into problems every now and again, for bringing such a wonderful Bill. I have always said in this House that we are here to ensure that proper laws are made in line with the Constitution. The Fourth Schedule of the Constitution assigns a lot of functions and responsibilities to both the national Government and the county governments. I must congratulate Sen. Haji and his team recognizing that under Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule, the issue of disaster management is assigned to the counties. Whereas the Constitution lays down the general principles regarding these responsibilities to the county and national Government, it is the National Assembly, with regard to the national Government and the Senate with regard to the counties, that must translate the general principles and provisions in the Constitution into concrete laws and regulations that may make it possible for county governments to work properly. Therefore, I would like to congratulate the team for having picked this responsibility. I believe that there are many other Bills that should ensue from the Senate in line with implementing the principles and statements in the Constitution. Secondly, I am glad that the Bill says clearly that this is not a Money Bill in line with Article 114 of the Constitution and proceeds further to specify how the County Disaster Management Authority shall be financed by the county. It is important that all counties should budget properly for the financing of disaster management and that it is not left to some ad hoc and haphazard ways of dealing with disaster. At the moment, most disasters are dealt with in county governments under special programmes which quiet often, are meant to be ad hoc expenditures by the county governments quite often not budgeted for before time. Therefore, the resources raised are either misused without The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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