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"content": "Hon. Speaker, this is not a one day thing. It is something which recurs every time there are heavy rains in the country. The people who bear the brunt of the floods are the very poor members of society. For instance, in Garissa County, the constituencies that are mostly affected are Mbalambala, Garissa Town, Fafi and Ijara. Those are places where people are lacking water for their livestock. I wonder why such kind of water is released in full force while people upstream suffer from lack of water. On the other side of River Tana, there are poor people like the Munyoyaya, the Pokomo and other riverine communities who do small-scale farming. Every time flooding occurs, those communities are really affected. We are celebrating 50 years of Independence. Sometimes I wonder whether those people are really Kenyans. Furthermore, we even do not get apology from the people who cause havoc downstream. We know that KenGen generates energy from the water but we do not even consume that energy. We get electricity through engine powers. We are not even connected to the national grid. So, we do not see the benefit of it."
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