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    "id": 1008152,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1008152/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwashako Mwakuwona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding the Mzima II Water Project. Taita Taveta County is gifted with the Mzima Springs within Tsavo National Park. The Mzima Springs currently supply about 15,000 cubic metres of water a day to Mombasa. As it is now, Mzima I does not benefit the people of Taita Taveta County. The larger part of the county experiences acute water shortage since the pipeline was predesigned to serve Mombasa County, leaving the host community thirsty. It is notable that this water project was commissioned in 1957 and 63 years later, no new pipeline has been laid to increase the capacity of the water resource so as to meet the ever-growing population and needs of the people. The old pipeline is choked, inadequate and unable to serve the ever-rising demand for this scarce commodity. Apart from the promises by the Government to establish Mzima II Water Project, no meaningful steps have been achieved so far. Failure to allocate funds to the project in the national budgets of Financial Years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 has remained the major hurdle to this project. However, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury has indicated and confirmed that there is a funding proposal from China Exim Bank of Kshs29 billion that has been cleared by the Attorney-General for signing. It is against this background that I seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the following: (i) Could the relevant Ministry provide information regarding the financing position the Government has made so far to fund Mzima II Water Project? What is the actual amount of funds that will be required to actualize the project? When will the construction of the project commence and when is it expected to be completed? (ii) Could the relevant Ministry confirm whether the financing agreement has now been signed and why it has taken inordinate time to conclude these negotiations? (iii)Could the relevant Ministry confirm that the first beneficiary of this project shall be the people of Taita Taveta and that water will reach Wundanyi Town and Kishushe Location? (iv) Could the relevant Ministry provide the project design, showing the scope of the project, and confirm that Taita Taveta residents will be given first priority?"
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