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    "id": 1372188,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Two, I have heard my good friend, the Chairperson of the Committee on Energy, saying that county governments will not have budgets to be able to deal with these issues. When you talk about the issue of bulk water management, if there is water in Murang’a County and the people of Nairobi are benefiting from that water, the best thing we can do is to empower the County Government of Murang’a to ensure that they sell that water to the people of Nairobi. We are the House that defends devolution. Unless my good Chair wants to amend the Constitution, the framers of the Constitution devolved water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not quantum physics. It is very simple. If you have bulk water and dilapidated infrastructure, you fix your infrastructure up to the borderline. You want to collect my water, collect it from the borderline and go and distribute it to your people. This business of creating authorities, which are bankrupting this nation--- If you go to all State departments right now, it is not that the national budget gives them a lot of money. Most of them are given loans by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other development agencies for them to go and sit somewhere in Naivasha and make decisions about how much water the people in Narok should get. We are missing the point here. This is not only unconstitutional; it is also creating bureaucracies on managing everything. This Kenya Kwanza Government really shocks me. Every time I sit here and read, even if this Act was due for amendment---"
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