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    "content": "extent disaster management is going to be an excuse for infringing on private property or Bill of Rights. When I talked to my sister she declined going to court and said that court cases are very expensive and take a long time while we need an immediate solution. I then called City Hall and told them what was happening. A person was dispatched there and I was promised that there was going to be a temporary fence of mabati erected there. Three days later, nothing like that had occurred. What is worse is that there is a huge tractor there; a bulldozer was there to dig the hole, hired by the county government for Kshs14,000 a day and on Monday it stood there for the whole day doing nothing. I know that the county government is going to be billed Kshs14,000 by that fellow. In my estimation, that job would have taken less than a week and apparently it is going to take two weeks. If they did not work on Monday, then it means that they will take longer. There is also a possibility that in the spirit of disaster management, we are going to find a loop hole for people to guzzle money into their pockets, doing nothing, but pretending that they are managing disaster, as it is happening presently with El Nino. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this idea of disaster management opening avenues of primitive accumulation and corruption in this country must be cured by a Bill like this one. We must deal with the possible mischief that we are creating an Authority in the county government which will be a conduit for corruption; a conduit for money to be used on things other than disasters. I appeal to the Committee and the Mover of the Bill that somewhere in this Bill, there should be proper safeguards to prevent the possibility of a County Disaster Management Authority being used as an avenue for primitive accumulation or corruption as is happening in the case of El Nino in the County of Nairobi. I hope that the Senate Committee, since this Senate looks after the affairs of the county governments, takes this issue of the implementation of El Nino programmes in this country. If what I saw in New Runda is the way El Nino programmes are being implemented in this county, we are in for disaster. Governor Evans Kidero should be made to know that citizens have a right under the Constitution to pursue their livelihoods under secure homes protected by private property without infringement---"
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