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    "id": 1025242,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "many ways to do this. I would like the Committee, through the Chairman, to approach this issue of dams in various ways. We have megadams. Equally important are the water pans. Water pans may be small and they are less costly, Kshs100,000 for each. So, the Kshs23 billion that was wasted in Arror and Kimwarer dams could have constructed 230,000 water pans in Northern Kenya and parts of the South Rift where it is semi-arid. It could have supported many of our citizens. The Government should also be innovative sometimes. I remember in the construction of the Narok-Maasai Mara road, as leaders from Narok, we approached the contractor and requested him to scoop murram from various farms and scoop a way that would construct some water pans on private farms along that road. Today, we have 152 water pans serving different farms along that road, at no cost. Our Government should be innovative. Hon. Pukose had said we have the military and we are not at war. We may not be at war in the near future. We also have the NYS with enough machinery and personnel or human resource, with adequate human knowhow. There are engineers in the military. There are also engineers in the NYS. Why do we not utilise them in constructing? The other day, as the Members of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, we were approached by the NYS. We had a Bill to try and make ways for the NYS to make money. That is why we came up with an NYS council. It is so that it can also venture into commercial activities. One of them was competing with matatus here in Nairobi, in the transportation industry. It is not commercially viable. We should have had innovation of them becoming a company, a construction company, so that tenders to build the dams and construct our roads can be awarded to them. Some of these Chinese companies have the same name, meaning they may be companies of the Government from China. On the white elephant projects that were talked about by the Committee, this country is risking many billions of money through white elephant projects. Phase 2B of the SGR has ended up in a small remote area called Emurtoto with only one butchery and one shop, only 12 kilometres to Narok Town, instead of completing the 12 kilometres to Narok Town so that we have a catchment area…."
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