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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1372172/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "participation by the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation and Council of Governors (CoG). A lot of time the Council of Governors is ignored when a law relating to the counties is being made. This defeats the purpose of why the Senate exists. I have given an example of the Thwake Dam, which has stalled because of mismanagement by people in the National Treasury and Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Sanitation. When you go to the National Treasury, they take you back to the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Sanitation. When you file the documentation, you will find a civil servant holding onto the document as they solicit bribes, so that payment is made to the contractor who has done a water project. The water project is delayed or is never achieved. Members should look at this legislation carefully. There are new interpretations introduced, seeking to define things differently. These amendments seek to reinvent the wheel that is already round and can never be square. We must be serious as a Senate. Where the National Assembly or the Government in its legislative proposal has made an error, we should be bold enough to correct that error in this House. I do not want to repeat the clauses in this Bill, as they have been elaborated very well by Sen. Oketch Gicheru, who I support. This Bill should not be allowed to proceed in this House. There is a new Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Water. Let them get serious, come back to this House, and give the country legislation that works. It is ridiculous to propose a law like this and make a joke of devolution by introducing boards to manage nothing, but rip money and not give back to the people. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I oppose."
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