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    "id": 964617,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Having said that, the question that we need to interrogate as a House is how we should respond to disasters. That is the main thing. It is not the first one neither is it going to be the last one. Disasters happen. They happen all over the world. As Hon. Sossion has said, climate change has caught up with us. Climate change has brought a lot of effects on the mode of life in this universe. I thought with the new Constitution, we wanted to devolve power and resources to counties. Devolution is supposed to deal with many of the problems Kenyans are facing at the local level. Today, if you lose lives, you expect a response from Nairobi in 2019. This is shocking. Our county governments must up their game. They are not receiving little money like the former county and municipal councils, but are receiving billions of shillings. That is enough to respond to any disaster that happens in their areas. The only thing the national Government can do is to reinforce help where they can. If we still live in the era of yesteryears where everything was centralised and for anything that happens in the country, the response must come from Nairobi, I do not see the reason why we should have devolution. We should fold it up and go back to the old order of a unitary system of government where you had to wait for the District Commissioner or the Division Officer to do everything."
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