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    "id": 1427461,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "this information from the good Senator for Nakuru, who is aspiring to be the next governor. I can see she is overworking. There is this recommendation by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, what is the Government doing to make sure that, that is implemented? The County Government of Nakuru should also protect its people and be accountable because the people in Nakuru belong to Nakuru County. Therefore, the Governor of Nakuru County should protect them. Number two, because Lake Nakuru is under the Kenya Wildlife Service, (KWS), it should implement that advice by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute. Most of the boys access that lake because they are looking for food and they do not know whether there are heavy metals in the lake or the lake is clean. The boys are very innocent. When these KWS police shoot them, then they completely do not know what they are doing. Those people should be arrested and to me, this should not be a mere statement but should be a substantive question. We should direct these questions to either the KWS, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of wildlife or even the Cabinet Secretary for Health or one of the cabinet secretaries. We must explore and see where we can fit this question. I wish you could bring it as a question so that we can ask the Cabinet Secretary from the Floor of this House on what effort they are making. I know if we seek for statements, of course, they will go and write something and bring it to the Committee. However, when he or she appears here, we can get good statements from them and we can interrogate them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), should also be held accountable. If there are heavy metals in the lake, why are they allowing pollution to take place in this Lake Nakuru? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also wish to comment on the statement made by Sen. Tabitha Mutinda. County governments have greatly failed. Women are detained in our hospitals in this era by a Governor who was a Senator in this House and understands devolution perfectly. He served here for five years. I also served with him in the National Assembly for five years. Therefore, he knows and understands what should be done in the county. The counties are almost stalling. Most of the counties are operating on autopilot. For instance, where I come from, we have high cases of cancer. I ask the Chair of the Committee on Health to give me a date to travel because we must go and see the situation. The Cancer patients are ailing in their homes. Tomorrow, my foundation will be looking at three cases in Igembe. The counties must work hard. These three departments of health, education, and agriculture should be devolved 100 per cent so that we can make sure that there is money in the counties. What the governors are saying is that there is no money for health. They are saying the money is at the national Government. When you ask them about water, they will tell you regional water bodies have money, but they are operated from Nairobi. I wish one day we can directly give all this money to counties, so that governors can be accountable. I thank you. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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