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    "content": "County. This Bill wants to deal with this issue, because you cannot have a one-man show when you have disasters. When children are dying in Solai, you cannot have one person moving from Nairobi all the way to Solai Dam, Tana River and Makueni. This Bill tries to deal with these issues. The county team will inform the national authority, which will deploy – whether it is infrastructure in terms of equipment or money – but we want the counties to be the first points of call when it comes to disaster risk management. In the case of fires in Nairobi City County, we want Gov. Sonko to be the first one on site in Gikomba. In the case of Solai Dam disaster, 150 children were affected. Some of the officials of the County Government of Nakuru were charged for being complicit or abetting the disaster there. In a proper system, the counselling would have been done by that county during and after the incident. I have pointed out there are two children who have been put in The Standard newspaper. They saw the disaster with their own eyes. They held on to one another next to a log as the water was raging. They were watching people losing their lives. However, in their case, it was worse because a young child was trapped next to them, but they could not move an inch. It took four hours to rescue those two children. Who is supposed to counsel the two about this disaster? The county should have a mechanism of responding. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Part V, Clause 30, we have the Disaster Risk Management Fund. The stakeholders have proposed and we will move an amendment to ring-fence an amount. They say put 5 per cent of the national Budget or whatever figure, but make sure the kitty has substantial amounts. There is a contradiction in law. In the Public Finance Management Act, the country with a Kshs3 trillion budget has ring fenced only Kshs10 billion for disasters. You cannot go beyond Kshs10 billion for disasters in the whole country. That is the only money available. The Disaster Risk Management Fund will deal with this issue. We want to have enough resources to deal with disasters in this country. Thank God we have never had an earthquake, wild bush fires and floods as bad as the ones we have had, or several buildings collapsing. The gentleman who has been seconded to deal with the United Nations Disaster Management in Nairobi comes from Italy. He says that disaster in Italy is the way of life. They prepare for floods, fires, bush fires, wild fires and forest fires. They are ready and prepared for all of them because it happens. They have mapped the regions. We should know the disasters we are exposed to in the Rift Valley, Makueni, Mombasa, Tana River or Garissa. As Sen. Omogeni mentioned, the malaria epidemic arising out of the recent floods in Nyamira, Kisumu and the counties on the western side of the Republic will be catered for by the funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, Part VI of the Bill is on Offences and Penalties. The one I did with a smile of the transition. I will transition the Kenya National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC), the National Disaster Management Unit and Department of Special Programmes and everybody else to one authority, one command and one person. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Ministry of Defence, Madam Rachel Omamo told us that, in fact, the problem lies in coordination. One person is supposed to co-ordinate all The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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