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    "id": 1490847,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1490847/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 162,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "intention was to reverse, which was contravening the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, where access to water and water sanitation was left to counties. You remember there are still animals called waterworks. For example, now we have coastal waterworks. We have Victoria North, where Nandi, Kakamega Vihiga and other counties are falling within. We have Victoria South Waterworks. We have Central Rift Waterworks, Tana Waterworks, and Tana Athi Waterworks, which undermine devolution. They should be completely taken off. For example, in Victoria North Water Works Development Agency, where Nandi is, the headquarters is in Kakamega, but when you go there, you find that they have hired only one tribe. Yet it covers my county, Nandi, Vihiga, Kakamega, and Uasin Gishu, which was removed and is now in Central Rift. We are suffering. Most of the development in Lake Victoria North, including drilling water in schools, hospitals and other community centres, is only done in Kakamega, Vihiga, and other areas. However, Nandi is left out because of perception. This undermines Article 10 of the principles of good governance and national values. When you look at the projects that come to Nandi County through that waterworks development agency as opposed to other regions, it is unfair. It is high time we disband these agencies and ensure Coastal waterworks, North Rift Waterworks Development Agency, Tana Athi Waterworks Development Agency and any other waterworks in the country are disbanded. Let the counties and the county governments run those waterworks under the water and sanitation companies. I hope in the next report; the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee will tell us that we need to bring down all water works because that is where the bastion of corruption is. Most of the dams that I mentioned, like Thwake, Karmenu, Posta, Itare, Keben, and other dams, including Sondu, Arror and Kimwarer, are run by specific waterworks. These same water walks are becoming bastions of corruption, inefficiency, and ineptitude. Number three, most of the boards that run these water companies in counties and sanitation companies are becoming a big challenge. For example, even in Kapsabet, where I come from, we do not have a functional sewerage and sanitation line. The one that is there was done by the Mzungu, who is near Kiropket, behind Kapsabet town. Environment Impact Assessment has not been done by the National Environment Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA). We are trying to do one in Nandi Hills town that has been given to a contractor near Kosoiwa, next to Nandi Hills town. Sewerage and sanitation should be efficient. Can you believe most of the sewerage and sanitation lines were constructed by Mzungu? Sen. Mungatana said something about the need to be careful as Africans. We believe that Mzungu money will change us, but it will not. If we want to remove the present neocolonialism running this nation, we need to improve that infrastructure. Even as we do affordable housing, we should ensure that we have proper sewerage and sanitation for the affordable housing programme, so that we have a complete circuit; such that when you live in a house, you are sure of access to water, sewerage and sanitation. Most of the sewerage and sanitation areas are next to public places. We must do that. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
}