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    "id": 1456818,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "people to come close to that. So, the people of Nyamira County should be consulted; public participation must be done so that we preserve this water source. There is also an issue of pollution, which is all about sanitation, garbage that comes from these homes. If it is not done, even the water that comes from there will be contaminated. It will go downstream to the other areas and you know, we still have waterborne diseases. As much as we are accepting this report and supporting it, we should invite NEMA and the Country Government of Nyamira after a few months. We also invite the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, once he is vetted and approved to take this issue and we tie along the Ondiri Swamp of Kiambu County. We need to talk to the KFS, the Ministry Land and Physical Planning and the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. This is a multi-agency and department problem that should be solved. Sometimes, I do not understand. This thing has been there for many years and nothing has been done. Somebody somewhere is seated in an office that is mandated to solve these issues and they are doing nothing. I can give you a good example of my people of Gatundu North, in a place called Gatei, in Muserere Shopping Centre. They have lived for over two months without electricity because the Kenya Power (KP) took a transformer for repair. For two months, they have not returned that transformer to the people and the people are suffering. The schools there; Gatei Secondary, Gatei Junior Academy and Gatei Primary, did not do their exams because they are printed in schools and they have no electricity. Animals are suffering because farmers use chaff cutters and they use electricity. They do not have water in their home because they use electricity to pump water. Insecurity is also another issue. These are some of the things that we are saying somebody is seated somewhere, he or she is mandated to do something but he is not doing it. I would even suggest that electricity in the homes of the Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary in charge of Ministry of Energy and Petroleum be disconnected, so that they can understand what my people are going through. Two months or even one day without electricity is too much. To preserve these wetlands, I am talking about the Ondiri Swamp and the Siany Swamp, we should have buffer zones so that before you get there, you are cleared. We have to check what you have so that we can avoid pollution and grabbers who take land in the name of preserving it. We should also have sustainable agriculture. As it is in this report, some people have used it to cultivate. I was actually looking online and I have seen they are even taking the soil to make bricks for their houses. So, you can see they are not only draining the swamp, they are also taking away the soil. Probably, within a few years, we will have no water if this report is not implemented fully."
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