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    "id": 969378,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/969378/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that guidance. I wish to support this Motion based on what we are going through as a country. I want to believe that this is happening all over the country whereby floods are becoming an issue. There seems to be a heavy downpour that was unprecedented. The rate at which we are losing our loved ones is so saddening. Today, we counted about 150 souls who have been swept away by floods. We cannot continue counting numbers. We are counting lives. We have not seen enough effort being done by the Government in terms of mitigating the kind of predicament that we find ourselves in. There is a department that has been formed through an Act of Parliament called the National Disaster Management Authority. I believe they are inadequately funded because such occurrences could happen any other time. As much as we want to blame ourselves and the abuse of the environment, we cannot protect ourselves from natural calamities. This still happens even in developed countries that have invested in forest cover like the United States of America where their forest cover is above 60 per cent. Those calamities keep on appearing in countries like China and Japan. As a country, we need to empower and adequately fund the agencies that are entrusted with managing disasters. What we saw in West Pokot is so saddening whereby the Cabinet Secretary could not even get to the destination. He had planned to go and join the rescue"
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