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    "id": 204459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.Y. Haji",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 26,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government is not yet aware that there is no single borehole in Ijara District. The people there, depend on dams. Everybody knows that when the rains fail and dams dry up, people in Ijara have no boreholes to resort to. Human beings as well as their livestock have to trek all the way to Tana River. It is also a known fact that the people of that district suffer greatly from Malaria as well as Bilharzia because of use of water dams. Recently, an investigation was carried out and it was found that treatable water can be found along Tana River. When we approached the Kenya Red Cross Society, they kindly agreed to allocate some money to sink a borehole to supply water to the people of Ijara District. Unfortunately, when the officials of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation took their machines to sink the boreholes, the people of Tana River came out with weapons to stop a Government project from being implemented. These are some of the things that can bring animosity among communities, particularly when people are denied necessities of life. We know that we do not have any river in North Eastern Province. The only river which is available is Tana River. This borehole is not being sunk on anybody's shamba. It is being sunk in the wilderness where nobody lives. I would like to have a Ministerial Statement as to whether the Government condones certain activities where Kenyans are being denied the right to water, simply because they are Somalis. That is the language they use."
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