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    "id": 203374,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/203374/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 142,
        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
        "slug": "aden-sugow"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that personnel from the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation sent to sink a borehole to supply water to Hara Trading Centre in Ijara District were recently evicted from a site near the Tana River. (b) My Ministry is constructing a water supply scheme for Hara Trading Centre. The water supply has a river source and a pump house, and the rising main pipelines were constructed during the last financial year. In the current financial year, 2007/2008, the remaining works for this water supply, which include the construction of a composite filtration unit and purchase and installation of a pumping unit will be completed. Ijara District has poor ground water potential and good yielding borehole sites are allocated along Tana River, which is administratively under Tana River District. Drilling of boreholes along Tana River has sometimes caused tension between the residents of Ijara and Tana River districts. Water resources are, however, the property of the State and my Ministry has involved the 3964 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 18, 2007 Provincial Administration to reconcile and sensitise the residents on Government policy. In the meantime, my Ministry has mobilised a drilling rig and personnel to drill a borehole at Kitele to serve the residents of Kitele in Tana River District and Kotile in Ijara District. The drilling works are ongoing and on completion, the rig will be moved to drill two more boreholes in Majengo area within Tana River District to serve Masalani in Ijara District. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my Ministry will also drill two other boreholes at Sagaillo and Hulugho in Ijara District."
}