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    "id": 796698,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion and congratulate the Mover, Hon. Alfred Keter. It has been a very tough time for Kenya to watch Kenyans die due to floods, to watch little being done in terms of mitigation and to see that as Government, we are reacting other than being proactive in protecting our people. Obviously, the Metrological Department has a role in ensuring that they give a clear picture of what to expect. They said that we would have heavy rains in parts of this country. In most parts of this country the rains have turned out to be heavier than they had predicted. Going forward, we need clear mitigation efforts by Government because we know with climate change we are likely to witness this kind of excess and extreme weather conditions going forward, so that we are not caught off guard or we are not saying that we are unable to deal with situations. We now know that we have a real problem that we have to deal with going forward. I think it is upon the responsible ministries to prepare themselves adequately when we expect these heavy rains. I remember in the last Parliament we still had the same heavy rains and we passed Supplementary Budget to ensure that the Ministry in charge of infrastructure had adequate money to respond to the various infrastructural challenges that came because of the heavy rains. The question is, why do we have to wait until the rains are here, then we start to cry and ask for money? Going forward, we need to make sure that we have more money in our Budget for such moments so that we take care of farmers. Now most of the crops are rotting. We are likely to witness serious drought and hunger in the near future because most of the crops especially where I come from, are rotting in the farms because of excess rains. So we need to prepare ourselves and stop coming back to this House to complain about certain things not going right, when we should have done something about it. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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