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    "id": 1201423,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1201423/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "If you listened to the President of the Republic of Kenya, Dr. William Ruto, and read his mood and tone, you would have heard a man determined to change the fortunes of this country. I wish to quote what a former President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, said in his inaugural address in 1981. He said that the economic ills they were facing as a country would not be dealt with in a day, a week or one month but they would surely be sorted out. I listened to the Address of the President and I know that he is interested in sorting out the issues that we are seized of. His speech and address cap on issues that are detrimental to the people of Kenya. The President mentioned that he will be a President for all. As mentioned by my colleagues here, the country was torn down in the middle and it is in his will and wish that we shall forge together as a country. Elections are there to separate those who are running for political office but once that period is over, we have to forge together, as people of Kenya. As Senators, we are in this House to serve the people of Kenya regardless of party positions or the voting patterns of our people. In no order or sequence, I wish to start with paragraph 31 of the address of the President where he spoke to the issue of water. We are lucky because we have a President who has been the Deputy President of this Republic for the last 10 years. He, therefore, understands the issues they were not able to achieve and why they were not able to achieve them and he should be able to give solutions to those issues. In that paragraph, he said that the Government requires about Kshs500 billion to meet the water needs of the people of Kenya. Water is a major issue for the people of Nyandarua County. They need it for subsistent use and irrigation. Nyandarua is an agricultural County. Without water, it cannot feed the Nation yet it is a food basket. We are the number one producers of potatoes, carrots and cabbages and number two producers of milk in the Republic. Therefore, water is a major issue for the people of Nyandarua County. I will not take the direction that my brother, the Senator for Muranga County; Sen. Joe Nyutu took. He said that they will bring a legislative agenda in order for them to get something from Ndakaine Dam. Eight per cent of the water that is consumed in Nairobi comes from Sasumua Dam in Nyandarua County. We had a serious engagement with the people of Nyandarua County. Although there is the right to water, your rights stop when you infringe upon the rights of another person. When the people of Nairobi believe that they deserve to use water from Nyandarua and the people of Nyandarua are not getting that water--- We are seriously engaging. We will employ the rules of the jungle such that if you pour ugali, we shall pour mboga, so that all of us do what we are supposed to. It is not fair that the people of Njabini do not have water while 80 per cent of water that is being used in Nairobi is from Sasumua Dam. Having said that, the former President, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, and his then Deputy, Hon. William Ruto, had promised to construct three dams. One of them is Pesi Dam at the far end of Nyandarua County. They had even started designing. However, when we had the “Handshake”, the people of Nyandarua Nyandurua presumably were on the wrong side of political affiliation. As a result, that project stalled."
}