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    "id": 373502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/373502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I will take very few minutes. I want to thank hon. Wario for bringing this Motion. This is a Motion of great national importance. Over the years, what KenGen has been doing to many farmers downstream from the district of Garissa, Tana River, Lamu and part of Ukambani is unimaginable in terms of lose to the livelihood of our people. KenGen is one of the fastest growing companies in the country listed in the Nairobi Stock Exchange, with a lot of dollar funding. I wish the donors who are funding KenGen knew what KenGen does, the water they release every time there are heavy rains in our country. The kind of damage they do is immense. Towns and villages are washed away by these floods. These are not normal floods, they are artificial floods; water is released from big dams and reservoirs of KenGen. This year alone, all the investments that farmers have done along Tana River is huge. There are over 500,000 hectares of land from parts of Mwingi, the former Vice President’s constituency, all the way to Balambala Constituency where my neighbiour Abdikadir comes. They again stretch all the way to my constituency, Bura, Fafi, Ijara and Lamu. That lose is unimaginable. It is lose on poor subsistence farmers. I hope that the Board and the management of KenGen are watching. I also hope that the shareholders are watching us. I also hope that the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum that oversees this institution is also watching. Once this Motion is passed, not only will they stop but they should also compensate the loss they made farmers incur 10 or 15 years ago."
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