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"content": "now dangerous;” because they should be the ones who have an understanding of the situations. My understanding of the way we respond, as Kenyans, and if you look at this now, you will see it tomorrow, and it will happen somewhere else, Kenyans understand emergencies when people have died, swept away and have lost all their lifestyles. That is what we call an emergency; we then rush and start to spend our money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have these funds that are for emergencies and the experts. We do not have to wait until people have been killed so that we now begin to understand the meaning of emergency and response. This is an indictment on the Government, both the county and the national. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we look at the families that lost their loved ones, there is one family that lost seven people; another family lost five people--- You will, therefore, find whole families are buried because their homes are the ones that moved, and not the people. It is the homes that moved. Therefore, I want to accept that we need to have, in a sense, Parliament directly participating in conferences like this. We should also have a direct participation in making sure that we pass laws and initiate active groups – not be the ad hoc groups or caucuses – that particularly deal with this issue of climate change, because it is here with us. It is real. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my conclusion on this matter is that, as we mourn the people who have been lost in West Pokot, they say in some quarters that, “When it is raining, it pours.” Not only did the people die, and some are still lost in whatever debris or whatever it is, but what happened, at that point, is that all the bridges in West Pokot were swept away. Therefore, you cannot drive to any place and you cannot reach there by road. In fact right now, if you want to reach one of the places, you come to a river where some people have trained themselves to carry others across the river. That is their business now. Therefore, if you go there right now, they will carry you across, because you cannot cross the river in any other way. There are people who wait on one end to carry people across, so that they can get another means of transport from the other side."
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