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"speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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"content": "because there is already enough water there. There will be water flowing along all our Government roads and the work of the citizens will just be to connect some pipes to their farms. The water flowing through those pipes will be courtesy of gravity and will be available for 24 hours a day because Tana River has never stopped flowing. It is still flowing. If you want to irrigate your farm or rangeland for use by your livestock, you do not have any expense. With approximately Kshs50 billion, we will be able to pay for services, labour for our youths, irrigation and make water flow to all our rangelands and farms. The money we require is not a massive amount. We will have clean water. Water coming from the Aberdare Ranges, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya is not dirty and is, therefore, good for drinking and irrigation. It is known that when you put PPR pipes under the ground, they do not rot. They will exist for a long time with minimal repairs. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is up to us to sit down and think as a country. This irrigation Board is very important. I remember in 2000 when I was the chairman of the Students’ Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU). Hon. Irungu Kang’ata, the Senator, was my Deputy and there were other leaders in that cabinet. We took this proposal to the then Kenya African National Union (KANU) Government. At that time, it was costing Ksh13 billion, but they never listened to us. It is high time we ensured that some of those proposals that are beneficial not only to individuals but to the whole country are embraced."
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