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    "id": 969406,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/969406/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Climate change is a general problem. We describe it in blanket terms, but at the back of every incident, there is a family that has been displaced. There is a family that loses a loved one and we know that this is ravaging many parts of the world. I have a constituent of Nambale who drowned in Uganda while he was doing scientific work on one of the dams. We have not been able to locate the body up to now. It is not easy. In respect of my constituency, this might be descriptive of areas where the nature of the disaster is somehow different from the excesses and extremes that have occurred in West Pokot. It is usually the elderly, widows and widowers who may still be living in grass thatched mud houses. With the heavy rains we have had, they loosen the ground and the houses virtually collapse. There is nowhere else to go to for social cultural reasons, or for reasons of extreme poverty. We have indeed no resources available to intervene in a decisive way. I was very saddened when we discussed the issue of West Pokot some time ago and people casually and callously said that there is a county government that gets a lot of money. The challenge we have is much beyond a county Government. The challenge we have is even beyond Kenya itself. That is why we have shown signs of great inability to respond. I attribute that to lack of programmes that is conceived, funded, practiced and ready to move. We are able to move our troops all the way to Somalia, but are unable to move them to places to save our people. In those extreme circumstances, soldiers operate much better. They are better first responders than ordinary swimmers and ordinary people."
}