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    "id": 1424353,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1424353/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Zachariah Njeru",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will start with the last question about water being a devolved function and what we are doing as a Ministry to ensure that the projects we do get back to counties. As a Ministry, we embark on these major projects. Once we complete them, we give them to the county governments. To ensure we get money to repay the loans, we sell water in bulk to Water Service Providers (WSPs) that are under the counties. This is a sure way of getting back money from them. Their work will be to distribute the water. When we release water to counties, we plan to have bulk meters to charge them. The other question was about the Likoni Water Project. It is true that we did this project a while ago. However, we have not completed the Mwache Dam. This project will get water from the Mwache Dam. Once the dam is complete, the people of Likoni will benefit. I can assure you that based on the design of the project, the whole of Likoni will benefit from this project. On the question on Nairobi satellite projects, I would like to correct the hon. Member that no work has stalled. In fact, as we are talking, the northern collector is undergoing testing. I will give a comprehensive report and submit it to this august House. The Keben Project is mega. The Government is keen to see that this project starts. I would like to correct the hon. Senator that no money has been given out. At the moment, we are designing the project and looking for a contractor using the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Finance (EPCF) financing model. This way, we will be sure"
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