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    "id": 796707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdullahi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dr. Ali Abdullahi Ibrahim",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Keter for bringing this Motion. This is very critical. We have come from a period of drought, now we are in a period of flooding. We have had too much of drought, now we are having too much of rain. The unfortunate part is that we are not thinking so much about the catchment measures for the heavy rains that have occurred. In Mandera North, where I come from, and north eastern in general, we never used to have roads. Now the few ones that we thought we had have now been washed away. Imagine that kind of situation where you have no roads, you had something similar to roads and they have been washed away. This is really a disaster. Places where they have had tarmacked roads have also been hit hard. You can imagine tarmacs have been hit hard, what about places where there is no tarmac? The other aspect on which I want to support my colleague from Marsabit is that Red Cross is actually the face of responding to these disasters. The unfortunate part is that they do not get any government funding for these kinds of actions. It is time, as he said, that we must appropriate funds for the Kenya Red Cross, because they are in every village and every location of this country. So as a House we need to stand with the Red Cross so that they can be in the forefront addressing these matters. Above all, we also have equipment belonging to KDF. The other day, the Suswa-Mai Mahiu Road was cut off. We have capacity for mobile bridges that can be deployed for people not to be stranded. It is high time some of these big machines lying in warehouses and yards were used. They have also been bought by taxpayers’ money. In Mandera, we had people being cut off; they cannot reach the other side because the bridge was washed away. And we have no equipment to respond. So, this is very critical. We need to talk about how to make use of these heavy rains and flooding so that we can use them positively. Thank you. I support."
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