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    "id": 1100086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "attacking talking about relevancies, yet many people suffer from drought and famine. They cannot access water. In as much as we lay blame with the national Government, what are the county governments doing in terms of drilling boreholes and making sure that there is accessibility to water, especially in areas that are facing drought at the moment? We find the Governor of Isiolo County discussing some political issue instead on concentrating on providing water. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope the Community on Land, Environment and Natural Resources will invite us as they interrogate this Petition. As I talk, even the Itare Dam which is in Nakuru County has stalled. Almost all dams that were supposed to be constructed to ensure that we have clean and safe water stalled. We do not want to play politics with our Government projects. I dare say that the Keben Dam project in Nandi County was given to Kisumu under the Sondu/Miriu projects. We were told that this was because of the ‘handshake’, yet our project had come earlier on. We cannot allow this to go on. Even the dam in Bomet has stalled. How can we talk about access to clean piped water when the same Government under the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation is not pushing for more funding for the completion of dams? As I finish, I pity the people in Turkana and the North Eastern part of Kenya. They are facing drought because of our disorganization. If we were fair in this country, the Government should have ensured that we have a number of dams being constructed in North Eastern region and Turkana. Boreholes in Laisamis have dried up yet the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Finance comes from that region. I do not know his name. He is busy lecturing us about political formation yet he cannot allocate sufficient funds to that region and ensure that our people do not die because of drought and famine. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition. I hope that the Committee of this House will be listening to it, we will be part of it and have a conversation that will help us solve these issues of inaccessibility to clean and safe water."
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