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    "id": 986500,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/986500/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I convey my deepest condolences to the families through the Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Last year, we had a similar incident where 60 lives were lost. I hope that when times comes, we will assist in one way or the other. Sen. Cheruiyot has said that there were mudslides in Tinderet Sub-County where we border with Kisumu and Kericho counties. There are many issues happening in this country. My appeal is for the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources to discuss this issue. The Senate Majority Leader talked about alternative land when he was in Chesogon Area. In Kipkelion, Ahero Kobura Village in Nyando and somewhere in Chepkalel in Tinderet Sub-county, there is a lot of idle land where people can live in. Let us also be environmentally conscious and plant trees, especially in escarpment areas, for example, Nyando Escarpment and Kipkelion West so that when landslides or mudslides happen, trees can prevent further fatalities. Finally, in 2019, the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government was not able to fly to West Pokot because the helicopter that he had acquired for Kshs3 billion could not fly there. Maybe, that is the reason he cannot fly up to date. I hope that with the passage of the Disaster Management Bill, we will allow counties to have power to manage disasters. This issue of buying unga from Nairobi and taking it all the way to West Pokot or Eleyo-Marakwet counties should stop. Those things should be managed by governors at the county level."
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