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    "id": 1272030,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1272030/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for finding it fit to appear before Parliament to respond to Questions from Members. My question is with regard to county water service boards. This is a discussion that the Senate has had, that in each of our 47 counties, the leading audit query in each Financial Year, is the misappropriation of funds in the various water service boards. They used to be owned by municipalities and have since been transferred to counties. County water service boards play a crucial role in as far as fulfilling the last mile water connectivity that we promised in the Kenya Kwanza manifesto and which the Cabinet Secretary is fully aware of. They play this role alongside the huge water projects that her Ministry will do in either dams or other large interventions. The eventual distributors of these resources ensure that there is proper metering and prudent management of those resources like monies and the water as well are the county water service boards. We are increasingly seeing a scenario where they are being mismanaged. We have situations where former governors are still active directors even in some of those companies up to now. It is upon the national Government in Schedule IV of our Constitution, to develop policies that will ensure uniformity of practice across all the 47 counties in areas that are of national interest. Water is one such sector. I would wish to know from the Cabinet Secretary, the plans she has on reigning in on the mess that is in almost every water"
}