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    "id": 373665,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/373665/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to thank my brother, hon. Wario for bringing this Motion to the House. I think through hon. Wario, the people of the larger Tana Basin and the contiguous constituencies have actually come before this House to say that both TARDA and KenGen are not doing what they should do. That is, being able to harness flood waters to use for generating electricity and also supporting irrigation. What we see in this is a matter of gross negligence, incompetence and also lack of continuous growth within our institutions. I think if we must learn about management of flood waters in this country, we must learn from the country of Egypt where at the starting point of the Nile in Jinja, Egyptians have placed their engineers at the dam to be able to measure the flow of water. When you go down to Khartoum, they have engineers to actually measure how much water is going down. Egyptians were able to come up with Nasser Dam which is an artificial dam, that is man-made, to be able to control the waters of the Nile and also to be able to put this water in a reservoir. When you get to Cairo, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation is placed right on the Nile where every morning engineers are able to see the flow of the water and to see how much the Nile has risen over 12 to 24 hours. It is that country where it rains once or twice in a year that is able to provide food and sell surplus to us."
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