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    "id": 207931,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want to hear what hon. Munyao is saying. When the KANU Government was in power, he was also a KANU person. So, the issue does not arise. It is now five years since this Government came to power. Let us not talk about history, but now and tomorrow, because that is what is going to help us. It would be very important for this Ministry to receive more funds, so that every home in this country can receive clean water for drinking. Likewise, those who want to do farming can do it. But if we continue moving at the same pace in terms of water provision, it will take this country another 50 years or so for every home to have access to clean water. If we continue allocating more funds to the Ministry, like the 70 per cent increment in funding this financial year, it will really help this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my district has suffered since Independence. We have been marginalised so much that sometimes we get peanuts in terms of the money allocated to fund water projects, yet, that district has a population of close to one million people. What we get is not really equal to what we require. It is my recommendation that 75 per cent of all the monies which go to Makueni District should be used to fund water projects. This is because people who live in the district are hard working. But because of the failure of the rains, they cannot achieve what they want. The Minister also comes from that area and he knows how many kilometres our women trek to get water. One wakes up at 5.00 a.m. and comes back at 10 a.m. People have nothing to eat and there is nothing they can do about it. Even if we cannot get underground water, let us construct dams. Let us dam the 24 rivers which pass through Ukambani. I am sure that if we do so, we will change the face of Ukambani. We will also stop relying on relief food. That would really help us to get out of that habit of being fed year in, year out. Mr. Speaker, Sir, only two boreholes were sunk in my constituency by this Minister, yet I know of some constituencies where many boreholes have been sunk. I would like to know why this is so. On the other hand, there are other areas where the Minister has not sunk any boreholes. When the President visited Makueni District sometime back, we were told that 200 boreholes were going to be sunk in Ukambani. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I speak, only about a quarter of the number of boreholes that we were promised have been sunk. If we could get those 200 boreholes in Ukambani to provide drinking water, we would be grateful. During the 2002 General Election, this Government promised our people that while in office---"
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