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    "id": 1114823,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1114823/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
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        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to speak on this matter. At the outset, let me appreciate the ministry for coming up with this National Water Policy that will allow us deal with the many issues that have been affecting the water sector. I will make reference to my constituency, Kabondo Kasipul Constituency where we have been victims of skewed policies and regulations that we had over a period of time. In 1976, there was a water project in my constituency that was then Kasipul Kabondo, called Atemo Water Project. In this project, the water was domiciled in my constituency but serving the largest town in the area. Since 1976, water has been piped directly to Oyugis Town, but the area itself did not have water. You question how it was possible for that to happen for all those years yet nobody within the ministry ever bothered to see how best the community that was holding the water could be sorted out. It did not happen until last year. Currently, there is a big water project worth Kshs1 billion, namely, the Oyugis Water Project. Even in the mapping of that project, it was not serving the area before I became the Member of Parliament. The project started before I was an MP. I came in and our area of Kabondo Kasipul was not being served by the water that was coming from the constituency. Those are the challenges that we are talking about that this Policy will finally address, so that it never happens again. Listening to my colleagues, everybody seems to have a similar challenge in their constituencies. I am happy that it is timely. We say that water is life. Finally, we will have a policy within which we can hold the ministry, Government and counties to account."
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