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    "id": 32709,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/32709/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "The other issue that I think the House needs to look at is this: Was the President and the Prime Minister aware? If that was the case, why was this matter not discussed at high levels so that, we then could have come up with a Government position which is agreeable amongst all the Government departments? The other day, there was an inter-Ministerial delegation which went to Ethiopia to discuss this matter. What did they discuss? Did they come and write a report which was brought to this House so that we could be debating it right now? Nobody knows what was discussed and nobody is aware of what exactly took place. If you asked Mrs. Ngilu here, she will tell you that there are international laws that govern trans-border and trans-boundary resources. In this case, we are a signatory to some of those laws. We have agreed to be signatories under UNESCO. We have agreed to protect Lake Turkana and Lake Naivasha. How come that a Government Minister, therefore, can go and sign an MOU which sanctioned the construction of that dam without consulting the necessary departments? It is important that this matter is discussed at the African Union level. This matter should be discussed at Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) where Ethiopia and Kenya are members. That way, they can tell us what is happening exactly, so that we can then look at the options which are available for us on the table. We must come up and have a monitoring and evaluation environmental assessment analysis so that we know whatever we are going to discuss is not just hearsay."
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