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    "content": "board and release information on time. Further, I urge the KCAA and all the agencies involved in this search and rescue operation to hasten the search. It is disheartening to suspend the search for a flight that has disappeared in a location that appears to have been narrowed down because of night fall. With the advent in technology, I have no doubt that our military, police or whichever agencies involved must be having aircrafts with infrared capacity to track and identify the spot where this aircraft could have landed. The flight path of every aircraft is controlled by the KCAA and there is no evidence that this plane had gone off the flight path. It, therefore, becomes even easier to track the flight path and with infrared assistance, they can spot the exact spot where the flight could have come down, if that is the situation. Equally important, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is to caution the heartless Kenyans who are the champions of fake news and who are posting all manner of things on social media. Even before we got any update, the sadists on social media were already saying “all are dead” when the search and rescue operation was going on. This is painful to those whose loved ones were on the aircraft. I particularly know that a son of one of the major investors in Bungoma, Eldoret and Kitale called The Khetia Supermakets was on this flight. A nephew of mine whose father is a District Commissioner (DC) in Kibish, Turkana called Robinson Wafula, who works with some company in Nairobi, was on that flight. The young pilots who were piloting that flight have flown Hon. Sakaja and I to Kitale many times. When people become heartless and start sending messages that say “Rest in peace” when we are searching to rescue people who have been caught up in a sad situation such as this one, it tells us of how low our morals have descended. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge the KCAA and the police to take the search seriously and put in more effort. Since the disappearance of the aircraft, I have spoken three times to the Inspector-General of Police and he has been very forthcoming in giving information and updates. I encourage that there should be no suspension of the search and rescue effort, even if there is night fall. It is now about 24 hours since the aircraft disappeared. If the passengers had serious injuries, the hope of finding and evacuating them to hospitals for treatment could be diminishing. Therefore, serious efforts must be made to find them. Lastly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the whole situation of our disaster management. In this country, we seem to have abdicated disaster management to the Kenya Red Cross. Even this morning, I saw that the Kenya Red Cross was headed to Nyahururu to join the team and they ran into some recklessly driven truck. The team is now mahututi in some hospital. It is sad. I want this country to have a state of the art rescue and disaster management system that can help save lives. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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