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    "id": 1096411,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1096411/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
        "slug": "wilberforce-ojiambo-oundo-2"
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    "content": "Clause 17 puts into place such a cumbersome process of consultation leading to prescribing administrative, an alleged framework. In this country, where we believe in brinkmanship, I do not know how successful the Cabinet Secretary will be, by consulting the Water Resources Authority Secretary, the National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority, the National Land Commission, the Council of Governors and other stakeholders. It might be cumbersome. We will never get any administrative or regulatory framework. Finally, the actors will amend the principal Act under Clause 15 which requires that the Cabinet Secretary to, within nine months, have prepared or submitted various regulations required under the Act for the purposes of supporting implementation of the Act. As it stands, increasing that period from nine months to 18 months, essentially, means that the Act shall never be implemented. We badly need a functioning irrigation management system as soon as it is practical. Eighteen months is long. By then we will have suffered endless hunger, famine and drought. That is not going to support us. Within a short period of time, the Cabinet Secretary, in consultation with the Council of Governors, should be in a position to develop regulations that can operationalise the Act. As it stands now, we do not have adequate regulations to ensure that we prudently invest public funds in irrigation schemes and give framework and guidelines to private irrigators on how to manage irrigation schemes. With those few remarks, I support the Bill with reservations regarding the proposed amendments that we will move at the Committee of the whole House. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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