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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Katuku",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Water and Irrigation",
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        "legal_name": "John Mutua Katuku",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Motion of Adjournment. I want to thank hon. Members for using CDF money to revamp the water sector. As the Minister responsible, I thank all hon. Members. I have gone round and seen many water projects that have been funded through the CDF. I encourage hon. Members to give priority to water. This country has faced a lot problems because of previous planning and budgeting. The Ministry of Water and Irrigation was getting very minimal allocations. But since the NARC Government took over, the budget for the Ministry has gone up by more than five times. Hon. Members have also supplemented that by giving allocations from CDF. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we go on recess, I want to encourage hon. Members to talk to our people about the culture of water harvesting. It is lacking within our people. We need to build more dams. Some hon. Members have done that through the CDF. But even people who have the capacity to buy tanks and install them in their homes do not do so! Even people who have the capacity to build a small pan in their farms for their livestock do not do so. They just wait for the Government, the CDF and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to help them. Let us develop the culture of water harvesting, so that we can build the capacity of water in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some hon. Members are claiming that those who are supporting the Motion of Adjournment are scared of the Vote of No Confidence Motion. That is wrong. You are giving the wrong impression. The Government is not scared of that. We have been here before. We have seen such kinds of Motions. We know the numbers that they require. They do not have those numbers. How can you be scared of what you know is obvious? That is just politics. We are not scared of such a Motion, which will not go through anyway. At the end of the day, we are not scared, as a Government, of the Vote of No Confidence because it requires the support of 65 per cent of this House; a support which the Opposition does not have. The party which is sponsoring the Motion is also split into two. We do not even know which party is sponsoring the Motion. The person sponsoring it has no party. I would like to invite him to my party, NARC(K), rather than waste the time of this House."
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