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    "id": 812361,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. for bringing up this Bill. I want to go directly to some of the issues and pick on specific clauses. It is a very structured Bill because it creates various organs from the national Government to the counties. I wish it could go a bit lower to community initiatives with many women in it who can come up with very dynamic methods of dealing with disasters using the African traditional methods of dealing with hazards. However, it goes to the Authority which is at the county level and it is very good. Clauses 5 and 15 are interlinked and they clearly give the responsibilities of the Authority which is the key organ in this Bill. I will go straight to Clause 26 and link it with Clause 30 which is the main part because it deals with the funds. When I first looked at this Bill, I went to Clause 30 before I looked at Clause 26. My question was on where the money is coming from. However, I quickly saw Clause 26 which touches on the money that is going to be appropriated from the National Assembly. But still, in Clause 30 where we have the Disaster Risk Management Fund, it is still very loose. This is because it is where the money is going to be put to be used for the disasters. I can imagine this issue of funding with the levels of disasters we have had. There have been a range of disasters right up from 1991 to 1993, that is, the drought that affected 1.5 million people in northern Kenya, another disaster in 1994; the Mtongwe- Mombasa ferry accident which killed 270 people, as well as the El Nino disaster. We are talking about massive hazards that need a lot of money. I feel the whole clause does not give an insight into the amount of money to be put in there. This means that if an authority is not keen to put the money where it matters, we are going to end up with a very good Bill but a handicapped group of a nice board that is well constituted, but will not be able to utilize the money. 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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