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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first for clarification, I wish to inform the Minister that it is actually 14 persons who died in total. I was there and we received the bodies. I saw, personally, 14 bodies. I would also like to inform the Minister that some of the information he has given is not correct. One of the pieces of information that is not correct is that you rescued people. There are five people who swam to the shore, one of whom was a pregnant woman. She managed to swim to the shore and died three hours after arriving because there was no first aid. The first rescue team arrived after three hours when the people who could have reached the shore had reached on their own. The only thing they sought to do was to help recover the bodies. Even then, it is the fishermen who have expertise who did. I am not minimizing the help you tried to give, but there are very severe deficiencies. A lot of lives could have been saved if there was a patrol boat. So, I would like to clarify that what you have given is futuristic. You are looking at what you will do in future. Many of these people use the islands daily and they have no other means. You either use the boats or fly. There are 16 islands in total between the two districts, which is the old Suba District. In the meantime, when is the Minister dispatching a patrol boat, because with a patrol boat, not even one life would have been lost because the distance was too short to have lost the lives? Secondly, what are we doing to empower the local fishermen who are already better experts than your team, because that is the work they do daily, so that they can also provide emergency rescue as you are looking towards these future intervention measures? Could you consider providing a ferry between Mbita Point and Mfangano Island for now to help the people of Suba?"
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