{"id":373650,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/373650/?format=json","text_counter":106,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Shill","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1465,"legal_name":"Elias Bare Shill","slug":"elias-bare-shill"},"content":"Hon. Speaker, my constituency is one of those areas that are affected by the draining of water to River Tana. In our area, the Tana and Athi River Development Authority (TARDA) is known as “Tana River Destroying Authority”. The Kenya Electricity Generation Company is also known as “Kenya Generating Problems”. Those are the kinds of jokes we always make about the two bodies in that area. Why? It is because thousands and thousands of people are displaced. Properties worth millions of shillings are destroyed. People lose their livelihoods. It looks like any other English word when we say it here but in reality, you see children and women who are displaced and who are prone to attack by malaria and other water borne diseases. What do they get in turn? You hear that the District Commissioner (DC) of the District Officer (DO) has brought some maize for them. That is all that is done through the Government’s Special Programme. When we are lucky, we sometimes have the Kenya Red Cross Society chipping in."}