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    "content": "come we waited until the last day and then said that we were taking relief food to Tana River County, when we knew that most of the areas there would be so flooded that trucks would not reach their destinations? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to have this strategy to finance each and every activity right from preventive, rescue, medical, relief measures and finally, when we have to distribute the food. Most likely we will have prepared but once in a while we might not be able to be fully prepared in a lot of areas. There is a chain of activities that need to be undertaken when we know we are going to have disaster striking. We keep saying that disasters will never give us a warning. Sometimes we have these warnings like the Meteorological Department indicated that we will have above normal rainfall towards November and December in certain areas. If we know that, then we are aware that somehow we might have problems with floods, a lot of infrastructural destruction and our roads will not be passable. What are we doing? Do we have enough finances and interventions? Have we financed those interventions or are we waiting for the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) to always rush and then we go in after them? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have observed that most of the times we have a disaster, it is normally the mwananchi passing by that is first to reach the scene, secondly the KRCS and thirdly the Government. Where is this Government that is always late in terms of rescuing the people when they need its intervention most? We want to see both the county and national governments being the first. We want to see them well coordinated. We also have a problem in terms of how these activities are coordinated. We find the national and county governments and the KRCS each doing something different. We should have a coordinated approach to issues. This can happen if in the first place we have a strategy that is properly implemented, which can only happen if the finances are there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a good Motion that needs to be supported and implemented. Follow up for purposes of getting a budget and a strategy on how to finance disaster management is another challenge for this Senate after we pass the resolutions in this Motion. Sometimes we wonder, we come up with a lot of resolutions and recommend a lot of things to these Ministries, but how much is being implemented? We need the Committee on Implementation in place to follow up to see that every aspect and recommendation that we pronounce in this House is followed up to the letter, so that implementation is done. Otherwise we might now say that we need a financing mechanism for these disasters then the mechanisms are never drawn and financed. We need to know how it is being done until is done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope the implementation will be done. I support."
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