{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=137704","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=137702","results":[{"id":1393441,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393441/?format=json","text_counter":240,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng'","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Members, there being no further interest in this matter, I now call upon the Mover to reply. Hon. Caroli Omondi, you have just slotted in your card. Do you want to speak on this? Okay. Go ahead."},{"id":1393442,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393442/?format=json","text_counter":241,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba South, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Caroli Omondi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice to this Motion. It is true that there are changes in time. The world is changing. We are changing from the bush where we come from, from the Stone Age, and growing into technology. In this country, we sometimes normally listen to the weatherman. I do not know whether it is the equipment they normally use or the system to get rain forecasts and advise of what is happening with the weather that fails. It will help to embrace technology to cure these challenges. We saw how climate change affected the Kajiado, Isiolo, and Ukambani regions sometime last year. The whole area was dry. The only advice from the weatherman was that there would be very heavy rain. They gave a scenario of massive rains in the country. Kenyans were told to be ready for the heavy rains. To be fair to the weatherman, he said there would be a lot of rain. Kenyans are happy to have the rain because we can see what is happening in the country. What has happened in the country? We have water, the country is green, the harvest is good, and we can get cheap milk and maize because of the rain. This is why we say it is very important to embrace technology and the weatherman to give us the exact time to expect rainfall. That will be better for the country. That is why I rise to support the Motion. It is not only timely but it must be implemented. We have been passing many motions in this House. We passed many motions in the other Parliament. Still, I see them coming back again using the same drafting language. When we pass a motion, it is always important for the Committee on Implementation to make a follow-up and see how far it goes and how Government departments or agencies handle the issue. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance. I support the Motion. I tell the weatherman to be scientifically factual using technology and not be like a herbalist. Thank you very much."},{"id":1393443,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393443/?format=json","text_counter":242,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"The Temporary Speaker (","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. David Ochieng'): Thank you. Member for Ganze"},{"id":1393444,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393444/?format=json","text_counter":243,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ganze, PAA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kenneth Tungule","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also support this Motion by my dear friend, Hon. Haro. It is a Motion that was brought about at a very timely moment. Right now, as a country, we have no other way but to embrace technology, especially in predicting the weather and mitigating the effects of climate change. As a country, we have been using archaic technology to predict the weather. That is why we have been way off the mark most of the time. This is happening because we are using outdated technology. A case in point is that there was a prediction that there would be El Nino last year. Midway through, the predicted El Nino was downgraded, and it was said that there would be heavy rains. Actually, El Nino occurred. That was occasioned by the fact that the kind of technology we use to predict the weather in the country is not modern. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"},{"id":1393445,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393445/?format=json","text_counter":244,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ganze, PAA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kenneth Tungule","speaker":null,"content":"Things have changed nowadays. The era or the days when we used to look at the stars or the moon’s position to forecast the weather are long gone. The current trend is people using satellite technology. We, as a country, need to adopt this technology as fast as possible. I have listened to my colleagues contributing to this Motion. All of them talk about how this technology will assist farmers in planting in a timely manner and planning how to till their land. In addition, this technology will help farmers and the Government in planning service delivery. When planning to do roads, we know that we also need to know the exact weather conditions at that time. It would be foolhardy for a government to plan road rehabilitation only for them to be washed away the next day because they did not have a good understanding of the weather patterns of that area. Much as we are saying that this technology can assist our farmers, it can also go a long way in helping the Government to plan to deliver services to wananchi . Again, technology will help the Government to be prepared for disasters. A case in point is what happened during the drought last year. It caught the Government flat-footed. The Government had not planned for it. That is why we had to come to Parliament and use Article 223 of the Constitution to provide emergency relief supplies to areas affected by the drought. We would have forecast such scenarios long ago if the Government had modern technology to predict the weather. The Government would have prepared well to avert such situations. This is a very timely Motion. We need to support it as Parliament. After passing the Motion, the onus is on the Government to ensure it is implemented so that Kenyans can benefit from it. With those few remarks, I support."},{"id":1393446,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393446/?format=json","text_counter":245,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng'","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you. The Member for Kitutu Chache North, Hon. Japheth Nyakundi."},{"id":1393447,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393447/?format=json","text_counter":246,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitutu Chache North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Japheth Nyakundi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also want to support this Motion for the development of satellite-based climate change monitoring. The world has gone digital. We, as a country, have been left behind in weather forecasts and the rest. At this time last year, we were told there would be no El Nino. Later on, we found out that there was a lot of El Nino. It made us return to this House and pass a few Bills to ensure that people from certain affected areas got relief food. As you know, most of the time last year, we were told there would be rain, and there was none. Setting up the satellites and going digital will help the Government and farmers prepare enough for planting and harvesting seasons. We had very good weather last year. It made us produce a lot. Our bags of maize moved from 40 million to about 67 million. We will know and organise ourselves if we go digital. The Government will arrange when to give out things like fertiliser because it will know when the rains will come. We will know the harvesting time. It will assist our preparedness in agriculture and other things. Therefore, I am part of this Motion, and we will support it."},{"id":1393448,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393448/?format=json","text_counter":247,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng'","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you. Member for Alego Usonga."},{"id":1393449,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393449/?format=json","text_counter":248,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Today, climate change is the biggest conversation globally. Each country is looking for ways to manage the effects of climate change. This is happening because we are meeting the effects of climate change in our everyday lives, from rising temperatures to unpredictable rainfall and droughts to all these issues. It is truly too late for us that, to date, we do not have a scientific way of checking or knowing how to predict climate change issues. Today, it is normal for the weather people to predict that there will be or there will be no rainfall tomorrow. The reverse happens when you wake up. It does not rain when they predict there will be rainfall. This is happening because we, as a country, have not determined a scientific and predictable way of determining the climatic situation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"},{"id":1393450,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393450/?format=json","text_counter":249,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":"This is why I think this Motion is timely. I urge the Government to move quickly and adopt this Motion once passed, as it will be passed here in the House. We cannot wait or live in abyss. We cannot live as if we were in the past, in the traditional colonial way. Our ancestors had traditional ways of checking and predicting climatic issues. However, we cannot do that today. We must live in modern times. Because the effects of climate change are very severe, it requires us to be current. That is my observation. I support the Motion."}]}