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    "content": "are a new graduate from a university? I propose that we remove the issue of 10 years experience in management. It should be 10 years in the relevant field. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 18 is on the establishment of the County Disaster Risk Management Committees in our counties. Under 18(e) we have made provision that we should have a representative of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) in each of the county disaster risk management committees. To the best of my knowledge, I do not think that the KRCS has presence in each of the 47 counties, and I stand to be corrected. I think we can find other representatives who have presence at the county level other than the KRCS. Equally, I think we are giving a lot of prominence to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance Association (KEPSA). I have a problem with this amorphous body that is not backed by an Act of Parliament. I am sure that KEPSA does not have presence in all the 47 counties. If we need to incorporate representation to sit in the board in various counties, we need to pick bodies that have presence in each county. I am looking at bodies like the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and others. I think there will be a challenge in getting a representative from KEPSA in every county. The intention of the Bill is good and it should get full support of this House. I hope that we will consider some of the key weaknesses in the Bill, so that when we pass it, it will address disaster risk management. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this country has not had a strategy in place to address risk management. I hope that once this Bill is passed, we will have in a place a risk management strategy and even warnings. If you go to Asia now, you will be warned that there is risk of floods, because they have the monsoon winds. Here in Kenya, we do not have a body that keeps issuing warnings. In the United States of America (USA), any time there is a risk of a disaster happening somewhere, you will always get updates on national television. I hope that once this body is in place, we will get these updates, not only at the national level, but even at the county level. I read about landslides in Murang’a and I am sure that the people of Murang’a County do not get any updates from their county government. We read about the floods that happen in Narok County. There is a time when vehicles that were parked on the streets of Narok town were swept away, when this could have been well managed. For example, if the poor Senator for Nyamira County is driving from Nyamira to Nairobi, he could be warned that there will be floods in Narok Town and he should consider the alternative route through Nakuru. Once this body is in place, we hope that we will save lives. Some deaths could have been avoided if only we had a good strategy on risk management in place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I support."
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