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    "id": 1372186,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your protection. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, I sit in the County Public Investment Committee where I get an opportunity to interrogate water service providers and water works bodies, in line with the Water Act of 2016. When you read these amendments, which are brought about by the Majority Leader of the National Assembly, there is a lot that needs to be desired. Why am I saying that? If you read the objects and memorandum of this Bill, it is purely to operationalize the public private partnership of our water resource. When you read the Constitution, water is devolved. There is nowhere in the Constitution that says that water should be a matter that is dealt centrally. The framers of the Constitution were very right because only local people will be able to understand the specific needs of water of their own people. If you take the powers from the county governments and bring them to Nairobi, one, there will be a lot of bureaucracies, and people will not be able to make decisions in terms of the needs of the water."
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