Flood mitigation & response in Kenya is challenging due to a range of leadership, environmental, infrastructure, & policy constraints. Firefighters/Divers represent a potential additional workforce to bolster flood mitigation & response, but ? @mtalaki
nation.africa/kenya/counties… There are a wide range of challenges in flood mitigation & response in Kenya as identified 30 years ago by my retired colleague Maj.Alexander Muoki former CO Kenya Navy elite diver rescue unit CDU. This include equipment, training, & a lack of government support. @Pmwanyosh

The Sisters that can emerge after such an occurence, are every first responders nightmare. & in an ill-prepared, ill-equipped, ignorantes infested Mungu Saidia area like Kericho ?
@maliks_88 @Jasiri_9line @SandeZack @slmiheso @mmunga_ @oloojl @mtalaki @Vitalis_Ngoka @fellytyzo

https://twitter.com/maliks_88/status/1783851652061048891

Sister 1- VCE (Vapor Cloud Explosion);
Vapor cloud explosion in outdoor,strong pressure wave is generated to damage seriously.

My madness has a reason @Jasiri_9line. RTA's involving LPG tankers can directly impact the tank's integrity, are highly likely to cause large-scale gas leakage & explosion accidents.
The type of tank leakage directly influences the severity of accidents. @oloojl @mmunga_

https://twitter.com/Jasiri_9line/status/1783875216537473078

Continuous releases of gas primarily characterize LPG leakage accidents, whereas instantaneous leakages are relatively infrequent. Nevertheless, instantaneous leakage accidents pose greater hazards & cause broader ranges of damage. Which need specialized response @jairuskagondu.

@ray_omollo What the hell happens to sane guys, after they join Govt & rub shoulders with politricians
Is ochestrating a tangible Disaster Risk Mgmt, end product, or an investment in reducing disaster risk in order to limit the cost of disasters when they occur ? @Jasiri_9line

https://twitter.com/ray_omollo/status/1783462427109085420

From a DRM perspective, your job as CS @InteriorKE is simply-:
Priority 1: Understand disaster risk.
a) Improve public awareness of, & engagement on, disaster risks impacts
b) Identify, address data, information & resource gaps.

Dear Allah, Jehova, Nyasai, Murungu.
Only You Almighty can save us from the UDA/Kenya Kwanza mistake we made. The extended deliberate mediocrity of its agents the likes of @ray_omollo. Can you activate a MARC without an executive declaration ? @LegalEzra @mtalaki @Jasiri_9line

https://twitter.com/ray_omollo/status/1783472808355393646

For such to occur, @ray_omollo we need to first have-:
1. A Disaster Risk Mgmt Law to safeguard it. A bill of which has been laying in Parliament since 1999
2. A National Disaster Risk Mgmt Framework to run it. Which emanates from the Law & stipulates the procedural arrangements.

@WilliamsRuto @NAssemblyKE
@NACommitteeKE @Senate_KE
@SenCommitteeKE
@MusaliaMudavadi @rigathi @KenyaGovernors
@AGOfficeKenya @InteriorKE A wake up call for all you, with eyes that see not, ears that hear not & brains used for ungodly selfish vanities.
the-star.co.ke/news/2024-04-2… It is time for a Kenya Disaster Recovery Framework (KDRF) to be developed under the auspices of a functional & professionally constituted National Emergency Management Committee (NEMC), & endorsed by the hard of, hearing President @WilliamsRuto. @mtalaki @slmiheso @LegalEzra

@WilliamsRuto @KindikiKithure @InteriorKE @NDMU_Kenya @NDOCKenya @NAssemblyKE
Government MUST seeking to enhance National crisis responses & recovery capabilities. This comes as Kenya faces increasingly frequent & severe crises. @Jasiri_9line @mtalaki
tuko.co.ke/kenya/546323-k… Climate change will likely make future crises increasingly complex, consecutive and cascading.
This applies across a spectrum of hazards & our Mickey Mouse Preparedness. @slmiheso @GvnMutula @skmusyoka @ShambaLaNyama @jaykashed @VictorMwambacha

@mithika_Linturi @kilimoKE With floods driving us, to the brink of madness. Do vulnerability assessments in Kenya's agricultural animal operations, have a role in your book ? @GovernorMwadime @mtalaki @MtaitaMkauma @VictorMwambacha @TaitaTweeps @mmunga_ @Pmwanyosh @PwaniTribune



Major disaster events such as floods & fires, pose significant challenges to Kenya's agricultural production every year. Commercial livestock & poultry operations are highly dependent on favourable environment, weather conditions & infrastructure to thrive. @gatwiri_c @OMakonjio

@scherargei Defend @SakajaJohnson UDA style as you must. But he is culpable, Disaster Mgmt speaking a mistake Nairobi voters made. @Jasiri_9line @LegalEzra @bintikombo @Acetineo @mtalaki @MtaitaMkauma @slmiheso @mmunga_ @ConstandBenard @VictorMwambacha
standardmedia.co.ke/national/artic… Urban flooding is significantly different from rural flooding as urbanization leads to developed catchments, which increases the flood peaks from 1.8 to 8 times & flood volumes by up to 6 times.

@WilliamsRuto @InteriorKE @KindikiKithure @NAssemblyKE @NACommitteeKE @AGOfficeKenya @Senate_KE Between 1998 El-Nino formed @NDOCKenya & Matiangi's duplicity @NDMU_Kenya formed by Presidential Directive Ref. No. CAB/NSC/14/2/32 of 8/8/13.
Which is the Apex DRM Agency in Kenya ? There is unspoken deliberate confusion, duplication of duties & responsiblities, as well as a waste of taxpayers money & valuable time.
Because of the lack of defined leadership within Kenya's Disaster Risk Mgmt-DRM efforts.
@HonAdenDuale
@MusaliaMudavadi
@rigathi
@KenyaGovernors

@WilliamsRuto Priss wacha ukumbaf ! As a person criminally negligent, for failure to propagate for A Disaster Risk Mgmt Legal Framework. What legality would you use force the evictions, since they aren't evacuation, as you haven't declared a disaster ?
the-star.co.ke/news/2024-04-2… A comprehensive legal framework for disaster management is essential to reduce risk, improve prep'dness, facilitate effective response & recovery, before you can evacuate anyone.
Without it they are the usual illegal evictions. @mtalaki @LegalEzra @Acetineo @slmiheso @mmunga_

@edwinsifuna lets start with you as Nairobi Senator, a lawyer & your failure in efforts to improve Disaster Risk Mgmt as opposed to shamelessly pointing of fingers.
What you are asking @InteriorKE or @KindikiKithure is about an Institutional Framework, or failure to have one.

https://twitter.com/edwinsifuna/status/1783440361114788083

1. National disaster management agencies:
We don't have a legal framework. Though like most countries, we have establish national disaster management agencies that are responsible for overall coordination, policy development, & resource allocation. Ever visited one ?

@WilliamsRuto On this one Mr. President, you can blame the handshake brothers & jail them too. You inherited a fucked up State & can hold them accountable. @LegalEzra @mtalaki @edwinsifuna
@Jasiri_9line @Acetineo @jaykashed @mmunga_
theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-… The handshake brothers are squarely to blame. Because, to mitigate the impact of disasters, facilitate effective response & recovery, they were too busy protecting dynastism to establish a legal framework for disaster management. Something they were duty bound to. @BennonMaina

@HonAdenDuale We already know what you are. Do you really need to open your mouth to confirm it ? Disaster Risk Mgmt is a cross cutting National Issue. Why hasn't defence propagated for National Arrangements ? @mtalaki @BennonMaina @slmiheso @jaykashed @Jasiri_9line @Pmwanyosh

https://twitter.com/HonAdenDuale/status/1783513180053889312

As CS Defence are you npt duty bound to spearhead the building of interoperability between jurisdictions, agencies, the private sector, businesses & community groups by promoting use of a common system like KDF- DRU & coordinated, nationally agreed principles ? @mmunga_ @oloojl

@WilliamsRuto @InteriorKE @KindikiKithure @NPSOfficial_KE @NAssembly @KenyaGovernors How insane are you to entrust Critical Infrastructure Security to Administration Police & County disorganization? @BennonMaina @mtalaki @MtaitaMkauma @mmunga_ @ParassisO @slmiheso @Jasiri_9line



Critical Infrastructure are those assets, systems, & networks that provide functions necessary for our way of life.
Since we are not a Nuclear Possessing State. There are 15 critical infrastructure sectors that are part of Kenya's complex, interconnected ecosystem. @WaNduta8

This is on all of you
@WilliamsRuto
@MosesWetangula
@skmusyoka
@MarthaKarua
@EAukot
@OkiyaOmtatah
@MusaliaMudavadi
@RailaOdinga
@KindikiKithure
@HonAdenDuale
@NAssemblyKE
For selling Kenyans short in, during all your cumulative years as leaders.
the-star.co.ke/news/realtime/… You have all been in leadership positions since 1999 when the Kenya Disaster Risk Mgmt draft bill was first tabled in Parliament months after the 7th Aug 1998 bomb blast that prompted it.
As redress to the legal framework gap existing.

@skmusyoka @hon_wamuchomba Did the season of lies, despair, & ambiguity. Start recently or you have been a part of it all along. Don't the current floods as a fact say you are liars, desperados & epitoms of ambiguity yourselves ?
Here is why !
@LegalEzra @slmiheso @mtalaki



@skmusyoka @hon_wamuchomba With a combined parliamentary stint of over 50 years between you. Are you not all too familiar with the devastation & disruptions that natural hazards such as forest fires, landslides & flooding continue to cause, Kenya ?

@WilliamsRuto You have failed Kenya. 3 Months after 7/8/98 bomb blast. Then a Colonel, I was privileged to be in the company of 3 great sons of Kenya Maj. Gen Agoi, Brig (Rtd) Mkungusi & Col(Rtd) Wendoh amongst 11 other Kenyans at the, then KCCT Mbagathi.
nation.africa/kenya/news/bra… Our mission was simple, come up with the Nation's first ever Disaster Risk Mgmt Act, draft to be deliberated on by parliament to safeguard Kenya, after a 35 years vacuum.
An honor, as one of Kenya's only subject matter expert & Masters degree holders then. @slmiheso @mtalaki

@KIMANIICHUNGWAH @NAssemblyKE @InteriorKE @KindikiKithure @KenyaGovernors @WilliamsRuto @MusaliaMudavadi
Before getting a new Presidential Jet could you at least, fight to establish a National Fire Authority (NFA) to streamline Fire, Rescue, Emergency Preparedness & Response ?





Fact: On promulgation the COK 2010 devolved Fire & Rescue Services. Whilst in ICU & piled up responsibilities on County Govts that assumed them from poorly run Municipal Councils.
Some of which had Zero understanding & or capacity to deliver the important live saving services.

@WilliamsRuto You are failing Kenyans. Disasters know no borders, or societal classes either & can simultaneously hit one or several of our 47 Counties without warning. @BennonMaina @MtaitaMkauma @mtalaki @slmiheso @mmunga_ @oloojl @ParassisO @Jasiri_9line
nation.africa/kenya/news/it-… You failed us in Disastet Risk Mgmt as a National principle, but can still save the day with the introduction of Civil Protection Assistance-CPA.
This consists of governmental aid delivered in preparation for or immediately after a disaster strikes in Kenya. @VictorMwambacha

@HonAdenDuale You lot must a bunch of rare genius. What transformation can in reality be attained without guaranteed public safety ? Care to tell us why @WilliamsRuto's Govt, is shying of Disaster Mgmt when would be gains are being washed off by floods? @Jasiri_9line @slmiheso

https://twitter.com/HonAdenDuale/status/1782822504085545086

Disaster prep'dness consists of a set of measures undertaken in advance, to better respond & cope with the immediate aftermath of a disaster, whether it be human-induced or caused by natural hazards. The objective is to reduce the loss of life & livelihoods.