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    "content": "activities to mitigate disaster. What do you do? Sen. Sakaja pointed out that in Huruma when a building collapsed, all these organisations were fighting over who was going to remove the slab and so on. As they were doing so, people were screaming under the slab. No wonder people died. The bodies to be nominated as board members in the First Schedule are:- 1) The Kenya Private Sector Alliance; 2) The Kenya Medical Association; and 3) The Non-Governmental Organisation Council. I was informed that during the Sinai fire tragedy, we actually got fire experts from outside the country. We have made provisions that the Department of Immigration will waive the rules on licenses of doctors who can come from abroad as burns experts. We will put that in our amendments, so that it becomes easier to bring experts on burns to deal with the fires. I am not sure whether Kenyatta National Hospital is dealing with burns of the people from the Gikomba fire tragedy. Do we truly have experts because during the Sinai fire tragedy we did not see them? Why have we been left behind? God Knows. I cannot answer that question. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have brought this Bill with my brother Sen. Sakaja, so that our children will not ask us where we were when we should have passed the most important law to deal with disasters. There is a lot of information that has been shared. I hope that my colleague Senators will pass this Bill as fast as possible. Let us get this thing off the docks, deal with disasters and start preparing for problems that will emerge. After the floods in Tana River County, we are possibly going to have the worst drought Kenya has faced. It is the contradiction of life. Sen. Sakaja talked about early warning signs. Does it surprise you that as I said, we have a Kenya Meteorological Department that has a department specifically on agriculture? Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a farmer. You mentioned to me that you have 5,000 bags of maize. They should tell you how much rain you will receive this year. Why were there issues in Solai? Solai was expecting 36 millimetres of rainfall this year. They got 55 millimetres. I asked myself and them, when it got to 37, 39, 40 and 50 millimetres, where was everybody? They should have warned themselves. There should have been a person being told that they had received more rain than usual. In my county, a place called Makindu was isolated. It got two times the amount of rain. Bridges and roads were washed away. Part of the work of this Committee and Authority at your county of Uasin Gishu will be to collect the information of how much rain you will receive, both for purposes of agriculture and informing people about disasters. Most importantly, prepare a response to whatever it is that will come your way. The evidence based strategies are there. We have work, a data base, priorities, risk profiles and everything. Madam Temporary Speaker, this issue is wide. I am glad that the person who will second this Bill, Sen. Pareno in her work in the East Africa Community developed the Disaster Risk Reduction Management Strategy 2012-2016, that is now law. I am surprised that while the East Africa Community has adopted a structure of management 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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