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    "content": "In Kenya, we usually do a lot of write-ups and nice words, but have poor implementation. I do not know how we will change that. You can get monies and create big offices with a headquarter in Nairobi and get holders for boards here and there, but nothing clearly comes out of it. However, for the Senators, I commend them for the job well done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I want this Bill to consider is that in the membership, possibly, include physical planners. For instance, in Gikomba Market here, as Sen. Nyamunga has mentioned, and even in the slum areas, there are no spaces to pass through when there is a fire outbreak because everybody builds wherever they want. So, we need people from the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development to get involved in this Bill so that the physical planners take actions on these buildings. This is because buildings and bridges collapse every day due to floods and you need people who are experts in those aspects. For the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Council, if you want to make them a member, they will bring one of their board members. It is better we indicate in the Bill that they get an active NGO that will help instead of the Board Members of the NGO Council since this is a Government organ and sometimes they can misbehave and might not be very helpful. On the other members, you have talked of private alliances. In some areas, those NGOs might not be very useful. On the one of the counties, if the national and county committees will resource themselves, there might also be some sort of collision. I do not know how the monies from the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) will be given back to the counties when the county government itself will now think about doing their own things. The Office of the President and the other NGOs can assist in disasters. Therefore, coordinating and bringing all these things might be a problem in the long run so we have to think about that. When you talk about the Kenya Red Cross Society which is a semi-NGO and semi-Government institution, it might get something little from the Government, but it gets most of the resources from outside. Will the formation of this authority impact negatively on the KRCS? Will it affect the way they do things? Will they feel that the money they used to get from donors might go to this Authority and interfere with the way they do things? Sometimes we want to do some good things but we might cause problems in between. So, the drafters should think about that as well so that there is no collision, to enable people work together and complement one another. That is the only way we can help this country in general. When it comes to floods, for instance, in the northern Kenya, you are told; during the rains there are too much floods and when there is drought, people die because of lack of water. This is not because we do not know what we are doing, but because of lack of planning. Why do you have to do the same things every other year? You are told that people are dying of hunger because there is no food and water in a given place and every time it becomes a disaster. This is something that we, as a country, have not performed our duties to make sure that drought is talked about in advance so that food is put in place. 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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