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    "id": 1425437,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1425437/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatinga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wahome Wamatinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the spirit in which Sen. Wambua has raised his statement. However, I would want to enrich his understanding of project management and initiation in the spirit of one Kenya. It has been said and truthfully so, that Sen. Mungatana has been a victim of water overflowing from the Seven Forks Dams. If we embrace the one-Kenya approach, where we look at one community benefit as a benefit for all Kenyans, then we will embrace projects that benefit two or three counties, which will in the long run benefit the rest of the country. I support the spirit of public participation, which is the approach of the World Bank or the Donor Funded Projects. The first ingredient of social projects is public participation. However, before this is conducted there must be a geotechnical survey and fact-finding survey to establish whether the geotechnical composition of the soil and rocks in the area will support a five billion cubic meter dam. There must be other questions that might be raised. It is high time we started a conversation on how to deal with land issues and compensation for land. We know things that were conceptualised in 1960s and 1970s. Due to lack of proper town and urban planning, we found ourselves in situations where people have built on waterways and areas that were earmarked for highways. It is our duty and obligation as a House to come up with an approach that will be accommodative enough, so that whenever we have such a project as in the case of Makueni where we have Thwake Dam, we do not need to reinvent the wheel every time we have a mega project like that. We should just copy and paste. That can only be done if we put legal and legislative framework in place. Whenever we have such a project, we should borrow from the experiences learned in past projects without replicating the costs that go with it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is the conversation we must have as a country. I thank you."
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