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    "id": 1272014,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alice Wahome",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. So far, I have had meetings with the entire Embu County and Tharaka Nithi leadership. However, I have not had the opportunity to have a meeting with the leadership of Meru County. I invite the Senator and ask him to possibly lead the team so that we can look at the broad approach of how to provide water. Including, which dams should take priority especially now that we are having this discussion and Public Private Partnership is gaining ground in terms of the interest we have created. The money that was going to pans and boreholes, is some of the money that I lost during the austerity measures. First and foremost, we lost a budget of Kshs5 billion. When we were doling the budget of this particular financial year of 2023/2024, I lost another Kshs1.5 billion. I hope that is the last that I will lose. I hope to gain that during discussions with Parliament at the Supplementary budget stage. We will consider work in Meru County. I know that we have ongoing projects. I do not want to say which one specifically, but I know between Tharaka and Meru, we are proposing Thuchi Dam that will benefit parts of Meru and Tharaka. That is a conversation that is at a very high stage because, it is one of the dams that we have released under the 33 dams that we have already called for expression of interest."
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