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    "id": 1228877,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1228877/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "We are also building Kipkaren Dam at a cost of Kshs1.2 billion. We also have two rivers dam in Uasin Gishu, Karemeno and Thwake dams. You saw the President at Mwache Dam on Thursday commissioning it and ensuring its completion. There is Mzima Springs in the Coast that is not sufficient for those people. One hundred 100 plus dams will be built across the country, even in Nyanza, Siaya, Homa Bay and Kisumu counties. This is because the President has realised that he has an obligation to ensure clean and safe water under Article 43. There is the Mukumu Girls issue, where Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale comes from. We send our deepest condolences to the parents and stakeholders of Mukumu Girls and the other school. This is because we have lost a number of students. I do not know whether it is because of unclean water. However, as investigations are ongoing, we will be able to know the cause. The provision and access to clean water is very critical. Most diseases are waterborne. Therefore, the Government must go a step further and build 100 dams. We want to provide water in this city. There is this issue of Murang’a County providing water. The water from the Kindaruma Dam tunnel is no longer sufficient to this city. Most of the people in this city are drilling boreholes to get water. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even during demonstrations, getting water was a problem. I saw in Pipeline where ordinary Wananchi were offering water and washing our brothers and sisters that had been sprayed with pink or purple water. Water is life. It is important that the President has realised so. Finally, we were just discussing the issue of education. When I see many people laughing on social media, for us who were comrades - I do not know whether Sen. Oketch Gicheru went to some university in the USA--- I think the Ministry of Education should get us the accreditation properly so that some of us can pronounce, whether they had comrades. This is because at the beginning of the semester, comrades eat chicken, after two or three weeks when the HELB boom is easing off, comrades start eating the egg. After some time, we eat what the chicken eats. That is the kales and many others. It is also important that education should be for all. I have a very strong argument. Why would we use public money to fund private universities? That is why you find everybody is running to private universities. I am happy and proud that, for the first time, most of the young people are now shunning universities to go to Technical Vocational Training Centers (TVETs). This is because all of us cannot go to the university. I am happy the turnover of the children who are going to TVETs are doing so for their benefit and lives. I know it will be unpopular. I ask Cabinet Secretary (CS), Hon. Machogu, to restructure. When they are giving capitations of HELB, they should not give priority to private universities. I think the former CS of Education must have done an unholy alliance with these private universities. Our public universities are dying. When you visit them, they have no toilets, the buildings are pathetic and lecturers are not being paid. Lectures are living in squalor. You will find that, at the end of the day, lecturers are running to private universities such as Strathmore, Kabarak and many other that we know."
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