Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: I remember one person narrating a story of a mother who sold her two goats to get transport to travel to Nairobi. She had no accommodation anywhere in Nairobi and had to walk from Chiromo where she used to go to try and identify the bodies that were being brought there, some completely decomposed and one could not tell who was who. She walked all the way to and from the Nyayo Stadium either looking for a survivor in Nyayo Stadium or a body as the bodies arrived. view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: A medical doctor told me that, if only we had a coordinated way of dealing with such disasters, the right thing would have been to fingerprint the bodies on the first day, take photographs including the clothes they were wearing on that fateful day and the process of identifying bodies would have been quicker even by notifying relatives. Therefore, I realised that there is a huge gap in how we manage disasters. Looking at whether we have any standard policy document on how to manage disasters, you would realise that the Fourth Schedule of our Constitution gives this responsibility to ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: If you look at the functions of authority in Clause 5 of the Bill, we seek to have the authority in liaison with the county governments perform some of the following functions: To coordinate and control the response to and management of disasters. Also, to build capacity at both levels of government in crisis response and disaster resilience. For instance, if there was capacity built in Garissa at the time, we would have had medical officers who could fingerprint bodies for those who had lost their lives and send them to the National Registration Bureau. That way we would have ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Government had no means of coordinating where those relatives would come to identify bodies and where survivors would be accommodated in Nairobi. view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: You can imagine if we had a management authority such as this that would coordinate such disaster, to know that Hon. Ichung’wah is affected in Garissa, he has to travel from Kikuyu or Pokot to Nairobi and know where he has to be accommodated as he arrives in Nairobi. How were they going to identify the bodies and how were they going to give psychotherapy to the survivors such as the young children? Many of you might have read of the stories about children that were transferred to Moi University in Eldoret and the problems they had because there was ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: The Bill also seeks to serve as a command centre for all communication and information. In times of disasters, communication is key. It is used to pass information, be it of those who have lost lives or those affected in a manner. In environmental disasters, information is disseminated from one command centre. So, the authority will serve as one command centre for communication and information relating to response operations. view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: It will coordinate disaster management efforts between various Government agencies to ensure there is seamless response to disasters. Remember the case of terrorist attack at Westgate. There was uncoordinated response with the military coming into place and the police. We even had cases where the security forces were firing at each other not knowing who the enemy was. If we have an authority that is coordinating a response to any disaster, be it terrorism or floods, we will know at what time we bring in the National Youth Service (NYS), the military or medical officers. Those are some of the ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: It will also seek to establish and operate an effective and efficient national early warning disaster monitoring information system. As I said, environmental disasters issues such as floods in River Nyando and other areas should have an early warning and monitoring system. We do not have to wait until a disaster happens for us to run there to rescue people. view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because of time, I seek to ask Members to support this Bill. It will help us both at the national and county levels of government. We recognise that it is a Bill that will affect counties and so I take this opportunity to also appeal. I know there was a similar Bill that would have been published in the Senate sponsored by Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo. I would wish to request them that when this Bill gets to the Senate, they take it up and if there is anything they feel they can add, ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move and request the Member for Kiharu, Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, to second. view