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    "content": "anybody in charge. Dear colleagues, please bear with me when we say for purposes of this Authority, I believe that we should have an expert. I am told that we have people who can do this. Sen. Ndwiga, I have answered your question on expanding the Committee; the co- option Clause is there, and they can do so. I agree with you entirely and that is why we have the County Disaster Management Committee (CDMC) which will devolve disaster to the village level. It is anticipated that somewhere in your village, there will be disaster management curriculum. Consequently, we will teach people how to respond to disasters both at counties and national level. It is anticipated the counties will do so. I agree with the funding staying in Nairobi. Nevertheless, how do we get that fund out of Nairobi? If we set up the fund under this Act it will then become easier to release it to counties, since the national Government has refused to release these funds, for good reasons because disaster is a concurrent function. It is both at the national level and county level under the Fourth Schedule and that is the reason we thought it fit to have that Fund. The National Youth Service (NYS) is highly trained. When I said NYS should be disbanded, people thought it was to be disbanded. It was disbandment to the extent that the NYS should be devolved to counties. Sen. Ndwiga, your county should be assigned a specific unit of NYS, same to Sen. Kibiru. The idea is there and I do not see any reason why that should not happen in terms of training. In addition to borrowing and lending, there is a standard clause I believe this organisation ought to be able to borrow. I anticipate that we will buy fire engines and the Authority ought to get into a public-private partnership to buy fire engines. Sen. Olekina, this country is divided into four in terms of disaster mapping not disaster-prone areas. The right word is disaster mapping. In each area, there is a specific disaster. You cannot say Narok County is most affected. There are other counties affected by other epidemics. The epidemic in Nyanza is not the same in Narok. The issue in Isiolo and North Eastern Frontier is not the same in Tana River, but in all of them the country has developed a framework for disaster mapping. Sen. Ndwiga, the Authority has early warning signs. The Kenya Meteorological Department gave us pictures. If people had bothered, the Solai tragedy would not have happened. They have pictures and water flows"
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