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    "id": 1142640,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mandera, Wajir, Nandi and West Pokot? I thought the best placed person is the governor because he understands the nature of conflict that we have. I will bring an amendment to that. I know the worry of the Senate Majority Leader is that this matter might go back to the Arbitration or Mediation Committee. Let Senators be keen. There is a systematic way of eroding the gains that devolution has made. I do not have a problem with Section 34 because it is more of infrastructure, expenditure, monitoring and evaluation. I agree with the amendment of Section 27 because the Principal Act has not provided that which is important. This is because we would want to know the mechanism that has been provided for monitoring and evaluation, development, governance management and regulation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, apart from the health and education sectors, the heavily funded sector is water. There are many donors who like to support Kenyans. It is so painful that Kenyans cannot get clean water, which is a basic human right. It is unfortunate that people from northern Kenya and Ukambani, who experience erratic rain, cannot do farming and those places are fertile. Mr. Speaker, Sir, all of us here who have travelled to such areas know that if those people are provided with reliable irrigation, they can plant their own food and be food sufficient. It is unfortunate that the infamous Galana Kulalu project has been ‘swallowing’ money, but Kenyans are yet to see value for that irrigation project. Why do we allocate a lot of money to Galana-Kulalu if we can subdivide to counties and allow counties to have the irrigation? There is no value that we are giving to the people."
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