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    "id": 360023,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "I saw you and you saw me. Well, the eyes met and I think it is good. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to share with the Leader of the Majority Party that for the benefit of the House, I happened to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for TARDA and I think I quite agree with hon. Dalmas Otieno. I know for sure the problem on Tana Delta has been there for quite some time. I think there were plans to build what they call the check dams upstream because most of the problems in Tana Delta are not caused by the rains in the Tana, it is because of the rains in the Aberdares and other areas. I was expecting that the Leader of the Majority Party would report on how far they have gone with construction of the check dams upstream because basically the problems in Tana Delta are not caused by the rains that actually pour down there but they are because of the rains that occur in the highlands, that is the Aberdares and other areas. So, I think there is something that the Government should do now to be able to tame the river because we have heard of these floods year in, year out. I sympathise with the people of Garsen because I know they have suffered enough. I therefore expect the Government to come up with a lasting solution. Hon. Speaker, Sir, besides that, I also want to find out from the Leader of the Majority Party whether we also have other problems elsewhere. In my area of Trans Nzoia, we have a river called Sabwani. It causes the same problems. In fact, as I am talking like this the river is actually destroying homes and even the little crops that people plant along that river."
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