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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Eng.) Eric Murithi Mugaa): Hon. Speaker, Thwake Multipurpose Dam is a rock field dam. This will be the biggest dam in this country with a storage capacity of 688 million metre cubic. When you construct such a dam and are done placing the rock fields, you give the embankment time to do settlement. In that period, when settlement of the wall is taking place, which as I have indicated takes between six and nine months, you reduce the workforce. You do not stop, but reduce the workforce because the remaining works on that dam is the placement of the concrete face. If you place the concrete face without proper settlement of the dam, the concrete face cracks. When the concrete face cracks, you find yourself with a weak dam that is seeping. The world's dam safety panel of experts recommends a period of six to nine months. That responds to the question on why the workforce had reduced in the works. Secondly, the question on the way forward. Payments from Africa Development Bank (ADB) require no objection. As of last week, I am informed that we got no objection from the ADB. Payments of the pending certificates are being processed. Thank you. I submit."
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