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    "content": "Republic. The first founding President of the Republic said “Water is the only viable source---“ In other words, he summed it as; “water is life.” If you cannot do it for any of us, you owe it to the Republic. As we complain that the Kshs8 billion allocated to the Ministry is little, and we would like her Ministry to be allocated more money, if they can allocate each of us a particular amount of money out of the Kshs8 billion, because this is the only Ministry that does not think about constituencies, but the centralized money--- We all know that Anglo Leasing and the Goldenberg scandals were as a result of corruption because money remained at the Treasury. This is the only Ministry that does not realise that some pastoralists in the Republic are considered nomadic because they pursue two things; namely, water and pasture. The Minister should help us to settle our people by ensuring that the more critical of the two, which is water, is available to the pastoralists who do not necessarily have to be nomadic. Nomadism is not an inherent character of a people known as “pastoralists”. “Nomadism” is a result of looking for pasture and water in order to put the soul and the body together. Time and again, I have raised Questions to the Minister about the damming of River Omo. The Minister has a good department that deals with the Nile Treaty on the Arid and Semi arid Lands (ASALs) source of River Nile. However, I have not heard any response from the Ministry on the state of River Omo and its damming by Ethiopians. The damming of this river will cause economic extermination of our people. Everybody is talking about Mau Forest because there are powerful interests. It is the docket of the Prime Minister, but this one cannot even have a paragraph in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. Madam Minister, I know you can do it; I have a lot of faith in you and that is why it pains me that you cannot share a bit of that with the good people of the republic of the other side. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me talk about the Rift Valley Water Services Board (RVWSB). As usual, the Rift Valley Province is so big that we need the Minister to consider splitting RWSB into two – with North Rift Water Services Board placed in none other place than, of course, Lodwar."
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