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    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Before I say much, I want to condole with my brothers and sisters from West Pokot County. I come from Tiaty and Tiaty is a 100 per cent Pokot. This was an unbelievable disaster to strike our region. As the leader of Tiaty, I stand here to mourn with my brothers. We are with them in prayer at this very difficult moment. We pray that God favours the living and may the souls of those who have gone ahead of us rest in eternal peace. This disaster is unprecedented. The magnitude of this disaster is unprecedented. The response agencies like the Kenya Red Cross was very swift. I want to sincerely thank the Kenya Red Cross for their swift response. I also want to thank other agencies who went there. I thank the national Government for the quick response in terms of forming a multi-agency response team that was headed by the County Commissioner. I differ with my colleagues who have said that the response from the Government was a bit slow. The response of the national Government was and has been very good so far in helping our people. When this disaster happened, I and my colleague, Hon. Lochakapong and the Member for Marakwet East and Marakwet West were in that region. The amount of rainfall that fell that night was just too much. In fact, I was almost one of the casualties of that disaster. As I was trying to cross River Kerio, my vehicle almost got swept away by floods. I am lucky to be here. The amount of destruction that was caused by the floods was immense. We are talking about loss of human life. We are also talking about a lot of damage to infrastructure like roads, foot bridges and livestock. I want to appeal to all Kenyans of goodwill as was said earlier by my colleagues. The amount of response we have received from the Government and other agencies The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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