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    "content": "County Assembly (MCAs) in Nairobi, but I do not know where they were when this budget passed. How do we allocate Kshs129 million for news and information? Are we subscribing to own part of the Cable News Network (CNN) or British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)? How do we allocate Kshs10 million for development expenditure on disaster management and Kshs160 million under the recurrent budget? We need to align the budgets and investments in disaster. Recently, I happened to be in Vancouver, Canada, together with Sen. Dullo, Sen. Wetangula and a few other Senators. We saw the kind of investment that has been put in disaster management; the call centres. Today, if a disaster happened in Nairobi, I am sure none of you knows which phone number to call, yet you are enlightened leaders. What will happen to the common citizens? Madam Temporary Speaker, for example, if there was a fire station close to Gikomba Market, where there are attempts to burn it every four or so months, we would have saved lives. We should have quad bikes because many times the excuse has been that there is no access in many of the informal settlements. If there is no access, what are we doing about? We should provide and make sure that there are alley ways. As we do that, we should get quad bikes that have water at the back. We do not want to see fire engines being paraded to Kenyans only on Labour Day. We want to see fire engines and ambulance services across the City and the whole country. That investment must be made. This Bill provides the framework through which we will have counties investing and coordinating properly. The many people who are charged with dealing with disaster only meet at the scenes of disaster. The National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC), the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), county government, county inspectorate, the police and the military only meet when there is a fire in Kijiji in Lang’ata, a flood in Solai or a building has gone down in Huruma, yet they should be meeting often. We have created an institutional structure of the County Disaster Management Committee and the NDMA where they will sit down frequently to evaluate and mitigate these risks. Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge and beg my colleagues to support this Bill as we bring in some sanity. Kenyans have asked us what we are doing besides always being the first to respond when there is a fire in Gikomba. I thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. who is always online on Twitter to support us. I always tell them that on top of us going there to support directly, we have brought a Bill that will provide a legislative framework to deal with issues of disaster, so that it is not business as usual, especially in our urban and arid areas in this country. I ask Senators to support this legislation and make sure that it is passed and implemented once it becomes law. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have exhausted my time. I beg to move and ask my co-sponsor, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., - and the only thing we co-sponsor is Bills - to also move the Bill."
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