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    "id": 1502667,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "If you come to Homa Bay County in Mbita Sub-county, especially in Karachuonyo all these other sub-counties, water is a problem. Even though certain investments have been made in the drilling of boreholes and the provision of water points, reticulation to the people remains a challenge in my county. I believe the same applies to other counties. If you go to our municipalities, you often hear that there is no water in my headquarters and others. This is a function that the county governments are supposed to do. Other municipalities have old infrastructure that was laid years ago that often breaks down. The counties are not able then to work towards the universal expected standards of having our people access water. Another key sector that was devolved to counties is agriculture. In agriculture, we have fisheries for some of us coming from the lake, which is very important to us the farming community. Our farmers do not even access extension officers when they needed. Our farmers cannot get the right services that they need from these departments. I believe this is because of the inadequate funding given to these sectors. I expect a situation where if a farmer in my sub-county village needs veterinary services, they should be able to access. Our farmers still keep dairy cattle and they often require services from the veterinary department. Without adequate funding, our people turn to private services that are given by private veterinary practitioners. In my country and in other countries, we are looking to achieve a percentage of forest coverage. In my county, there are two outstanding forests; that is Kondera and Ruma, which is next to my village. The deforestation that has taken place in this forest is so massive. I was looking forward to some adequate funding so that my county government could embark on a forestation programme to bring my county to the expected tree cover, nationally. I am not very comfortable with the reduced figure. I feel, as a Senate, we should have maintained our figure. So, as I conclude, I want to be categorical that I do not support this version of the mediated report. The Senate must continuously stand with the county governments. The Senate must continuously stand with the figure that was given initially in the report here. It is also worth noticing that as this report is moved, we do not have now the aggression that the committee had when they initially presented their report. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not support."
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