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    "id": 1114815,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1114815/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "country, to take this issue of water seriously. We have a lot of water that goes to waste from all the rivers that drain into Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria receives water from Rift Valley and Western yet the people surrounding the areas like where we come from do not get it. As I speak, my constituency of Sirisia does not have water but we are surrounded by very big rivers like River Nzoia, River Lwakhakha and River Malakisi. They are big rivers but there is no water. People cry about water every day. Women go to look for water even in the night. They wake up at 3.00 a.m. to look for water and yet the water is there. It passes us and goes to Egypt. The three countries in East Africa, that is Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya provide water to Egypt, and there is no payment but we pay dearly for the little water that we use here in Nairobi and in our homes. We buy water and water goes to waste. The Egyptians plant oranges and then they export them back to Kenya that gives them water for free. People of North Eastern have suffered for a very long time. People fight and kill each other in North Eastern. I have been there. They just fight over water because there is scarcity of water. North Eastern people fight over water. They kill each other because of water and there is River Tana that passes there. We were in Garissa the other day. A lot of water flows into the Indian Ocean and the Government has never taken any initiative to make sure that River Tana serves the people of North Eastern. Our water towers have been destroyed in this country and if it goes that way for the next maybe 10 to 20 years, this country will become a desert due to lack of forest cover. The forests are owned by influential people. The land grabbers grab the forests and that is the forest cover that contributes to the water towers. This country is in danger in a few years to come if the Government will not take initiatives and harsh measures to protect forests from grabbers."
}