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    "id": 26029,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition and I oppose the intention to create the project where it is. That is because it was not well thought out. If it had been well thought out, they would have discovered that downstream after the dam, there are two huge rivers, one called Kipkaren and another called River Kuywa. So, if you dam it upstream, you are not going to stop the water that comes from Kipkaren and Kuywa rivers. The water will still cause havoc in Budalangi. I would like to remind the Committee and the Minister that even before Independence, the colonial government had already thought of resettling the people of Budalangi away from that swampy area. So, the way to go is, one, either to construct the dam below Kipkaren and Kuywa rivers with consultations, or pursue the original plan which was to settle the people of Budalangi away from Budalangi the way it was envisaged. In fact, there was a farm called Manchester Farm that was earmarked for those people. When they were asked to move to"
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