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    "id": 1347490,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "because Article 175 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, states that they are the CEOs of these different counties. For us to ensure we improve on the water service provision for the different counties, then there should be much more support to the water companies by the governors in different counties, which some counties have done. For some, it has been also political and chaotic whereby some agencies are leaning more toward one county and not the other. At times there is co-sharing of the assets. This affects counties for example, on loans. One county may be paying the loan while the other county is not. At the times, that county is still paying recurrent expenditure such as electricity for that water company. Hospitals also need water provision by the water company. There were many issues that came about mostly championed by these Water Work Development Agencies. Therefore, the support should be much more on the water companies directly or by the county government. Focus should be on not giving more powers to these agencies because they have messed up the operations of these water companies as we were able to come across. I like Clause 12, which talks about the Water Tribunal. The Water Tribunal sounds tremendous because, in the longest of our oversight, we never came across any set body that can intervene. We realized there were many issues to the extent that when a new Governor comes in, he or she is cautioned by some of the managing directors. It seems as if the managing directors have the final say on water companies, forgetting that the Governor is the CEO and boss of that water company. As much as there is the Managing Director, we were able to correct many of these anomalies and bring much more light to these particular companies. In conclusion, I remember a few months ago, many improvements have been done. However, the solution is a wrap up of these Water Works Development Agencies because of the level of incompetency and poor governance that we came across that affected women, youth and men of this country in not getting sufficient water supply as they are supposed to get. There needs to be a lot more discussion on the issue of the Water (Amendment) Bill. That will be my contribution, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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