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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Report. At the outset, I thank the Chairperson and the Members of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources for having worked tirelessly with the support of the Office of the Speaker to ensure that this Report is done well. It is a good Report and it has looked at various areas. If you look at the issues that have been raised in this Report, they include writing the cheques as well as making sure that the contractors who are supposed to be given work to do must have the capacity to deliver. Unfortunately, in the case of this Italian company which was facing issues of bankruptcy, you will find that either the consultant or the Government slept on their jobs or once people had gotten their kickbacks, as Hon. Chachu Ganya put it, at times it is decided at the initial stage for that dam to fail. When people engage in that kind of thing with engineers who have gone through various training of designing something to fail, it is a very immoral thing With the recommendations of the Committee, we are hoping that the EACC and the DCI should be able to make arrests and prosecute the offenders so that we have the recoveries of assets from them. If you look at the equipment which is at Itare Dam, it is worth billions of money. There is something called disuse. Even a vehicle is supposed to be running on the road. If you park your vehicle for a long time without it moving on the road, other things in the vehicle will fail. You will have failure from even the battery itself; a simple thing like that. There will also be other failures within that vehicle. With an equipment which has caused taxpayers billions of shillings lying idle at Itare Dam, it is something that those who are charged with the responsibility should make sure that these equipment are safe and put into better use. We have other departments that at times… If you look at even our country, we are not at war now and we have the military and the National Youth Service (NYS) that have technical knowhow. Why can we not utilise these Government institutions to make sure that we do something in areas that we can salvage issues? I have worked in Baringo County in Tiaty Constituency. We used to see the Kenya Army constructing water pans for the locals. So, these are things that can be done. The Kenya Army can build bridges, dams and water 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."
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