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    "id": 369956,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/369956/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waititu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1618,
        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
        "slug": "francis-munyua-waititu"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion, having come from a constituency with five rivers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we had a big problem during the floods period. Most of the school-going children could not attend classes due to flooding. We also have an agricultural constituency in Juja, where people have coffee and flower farms. The floods also affected those people who were supposed to report to work. We had about 34 bridges which were broken down by the rains. Floods affect our country so much. We often see the people of Budalangi asking the Government to assist them whenever floods strike in that area. This is a problem which has affected Budalangi for several years. If the Government puts in place a mechanism where we can solve this problem of flooding in Budalangi once and for all, we will be helping the people of Budalangi. Also, there is a time we tried to do some farming in Ukambani and we only built a small dam. Through that dam, and I think the people of Kitui are seeing me live on television, we managed to employ over 5,000 workers when we started planting French beans. When we see this water going into the ocean, it saddens us because we know we can do a lot with it during the floods. As the Government, we should do something and control these floods."
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