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    "id": 1372684,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I do recall when the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, chaired by the very distinguished Sen. (Dr.) Murango, who has approached the Chair, held a meeting to plan on its objectives and strategies for that particular session. The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, Hon. Alice Wahome, appeared before the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries in Mombasa. She came along with the mandarins in the water sector. We put it to them that they have been the obstacle, hindrance or stumbling block to reforms in the water sector because they want to continue controlling big budgets in Nairobi. What is the business of national Government officials going to counties to drill boreholes, instead of providing that money to governors to do that? Some of them are using it for political bonga points or political persuasion. They come to launch a borehole, then they tell you that you need to support the Government of the day, because they are the ones who drill that borehole. At what point do you tell that the taxes that sunk that borehole came from one side of the country and not from all Kenyans? Madam Temporary Speaker, as a House, we must prioritise the pieces of legislation that have been stuck in the past constitutional dispensation. I am very happy that the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, in a report to this House, has already highlighted the Acts of Parliament that need to be amended. I hope that the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, which you ably sit in, has identified the Water Act as one of those pieces of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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