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    "id": 1490842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Lastly, I want to comment on something that the Chairman said, that the recommendations are arrived at by consensus. In replying, I would also want him to advise if this consensus is just amongst the Members of the Committee or, in fact, the management of the water companies themselves share in some of these recommendations. It is important that you get the buy-in of these stakeholders, especially on conflict areas such as the Kisii and Nyamira situation that you have referred to and the Bungoma and Trans Nzoia one. If there is no commitment from those stakeholders to resolve those problems, there is not going to be resolution. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank the Committee. I thank them for the support that they are rendering to all these entities to enable them to improve. At the end of the day, the people of our counties expect reliable water supply. If you look at the statistics, the people who have access to water 24 hours in this city are less than 40 per cent. The rest of us have to play pata potea with our water supply. This is a situation that is not acceptable. We have to call out the management of these companies and our counties to ensure that this is done. Nairobians have waited for so long. There is a project that we were following very closely on the northern collector tunnel that was supposed to add an additional 170,000 cubic metres of water to our daily supply. This would have helped because we are running a deficit of over 200,000 cubic metres of water every day. We need to be updated on the situation with the northern collector tunnel and all the other water projects that the people of Nairobi have been waiting on so that we are able to assuage the situation as well in the other counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I thank you. I support the position that has been taken by the Committee."
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