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    "id": 1347486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I start by saying that water is a key basic commodity for each and every household. Each and every woman, youth and man need water. I am coming from a point of being a Member of the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC). Madam Temporary Speaker, as Members of this Committee, we have been privileged. I am happy that Sen. Mungatana has had an opportunity to appear before this Committee on matters of water companies. We have been oversighting and our Committee is new. Out of experience and knowledge, as Members of the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee, we have been able to oversight and come across different concerns by these water companies. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) is positive in the sense that there is more financial muscle by the private sector in ensuring they are able to supply with the modernity that is required and the magnitude and quantity. However, the problem of having private people doing the water business is that we increase the number of cartels in this country. We realized that the Water Works Development Agencies were the decision makers in terms of the assets they have been holding for the longest period. These assets are under them, yet they are being utilized by the water companies and have never been transferred. These are issues that we came across and raised concern about. The most worrying issue was that of loans. The Water Works Development Agencies would take loans, which would be paid by the water companies. There has been no freedom by the water companies for a long time. As a Committee, we came to the conclusion and wisdom that these Water Works Development Agencies should be scrapped because they have been making it hard for the water companies."
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