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    "id": 1097157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this amendment Bill. From the outset, I support. There are key points in the contributions made by Hon. Sankok, which Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you also echoed. This is an idea whose time has come. I urge Hon. Sankok to immediately initiate what will otherwise be known as the Sankok Initiative by starting an online Petition to gather close to 50 million signatures, if it were possible, including those of our children, to expand his constituency from the 6.5 million to the entire Kenya. The petition will be directed to the Budget and Appropriations Committee to ensure that we earmark and ring-fence those funds as we begin the next Budget cycle. It is a tradition we have established as a House when we seceding part of our Budget towards the COVID-19 campaign. We ably did that and ring-fenced the funds for PPEs and allocated funds to the referral hospitals. I think this is very possible. As a person who comes from the semi-arid area of Kibwezi, I understand the need to have water available to everyone. It is part of the goals of the SDGs where we talk about availability of portable water within two kilometres. This will go a long way to alleviate water shortage. We, as a country, speak ably about last mile initiatives, being for power provision. This is more impactful to the lives and livelihoods that many of my colleagues have spoken about. It is about articulation of our Chapter Four rights of both the economic and social aspects. Water provision really protects the dignity of our people. It will help spur the bottom part of our economy and help grow our able country. I cannot emphasise enough that adopting the Irrigation (Amendment) Bill is a good thing. I am urging Hon. Sankok to be on the frontline. We will help you. You already have my signature as the first petitioner towards getting this done. It will restore a lot of things. We will be able to monitor it as soon as it is adopted by the Budget and Appropriations Committee and passed here to be given the funds that it requires. We will ensure that the Committee on Implementation follows it up to see this milestone across the entire country. That will be for us to look at what is traditional and expand the scope of having water turbines to pump water through rivers three kilometres into the hinterland to combat things which we have sort of left. We can have agriculture projects irrigated using water from Lake Victoria and one of the largest water bodies that has ever been discovered in the known world, which is in Turkana. How do we accomplish that? These are things which are even bigger than the discovery of oil within our nation. 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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