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    "id": 796691,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Adjournment Motion by Hon. Keter. I thank him for the same. We have a problem in Kenya. We cry every time. We had an Adjournment Motion in February when we were crying over drought. Now, we have another Adjournment Motion crying of rain. I do not know where we fit. All in all, it is a disaster as it is being said. I have just read in the breaking news today that around 200 students will not be reporting to school in Tana River because they cannot access their schools. The schools are submerged. This is happening all over the country. There is no road in Suswa, Mai Mahiu and many other places. We need to have a proper disaster management committee in this country. More so, because of the much rain, I request the Government to use the Kenya Defence Forces’ officers and their equipment to assist where possible. Let them provide choppers. The National Youth Service (NYS) and their machinery should be used to mitigate this disaster. The National Treasury should be compelled to set aside funds for every constituency to repair roads. I believe there is no constituency which has any passable earth road as we talk. Most of the roads have been swept. As a way of mitigating the same, in this Supplementary Budget and the Budgets to come, we should put extra funds as an emergency fund so that each constituency gets money to repair these roads. Once the rains subside in June as it is said, we will have no roads in our constituencies. It is important we get that money to do the roads."
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