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    "content": "that the President would have gone into the fine details of what is wrong with our National Disaster Management Programme. As we speak, and as the President spoke on the day he addressed the nation, there is so much destruction across the nation caused by floods yet we have institutions that are financed by public funds to deal with the management of disaster in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it would be instructive that going forward, we look into ways and means of harvesting rain water in this country. I challenge myself and other Senators to clearly come up with a legislation that puts a policy on the housing rules, codes and standards in this country so that if you construct a house of a certain size then you are required by law to construct or purchase a water tank to hold water of certain volumes. That can be subsidized by the Government. So much water is going to waste. I come from a region known very well to be a rain deficit area but every time I talk to my people back home, the prayer is one; God stop the rains. There is so much water. Two months down the line, we would be crying for that water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I would have wished to hear the President give us a report on the fight against institutionalised corruption. There should be a follow up on the list of shame that he tabled in the last address to find out the status report on how far the Government has gone in the war against corruption. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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