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    "content": "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and people are happy that they have big companies in their communities. These companies put up schools, health centres and so on, but here is a useless company. I want to say on the Floor of this Senate that, in fact, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KenGen and the top managers at Masinga Dam should be arrested and charged with the offenses of malicious damage to property, attempted murder and in a few cases where people have lost lives, they should be charged with outright murder. We cannot just sit as a modern society and allow people to draw hefty salaries with their children going to Eton Primary School in London when the people who are the reason why they enjoy that life are under perpetual threat. We must force KenGen to ensure that it attains the best engineering practices in maintaining Masinga Dam. I am not saying this with any fear because I know that we have a living example in Africa in the Republic of Zambia where we have the Kariba Dam. I am not a student of history. I am a student of Medicine. Therefore, I cannot remember when the Kariba Dam was constructed. Roughly, I think this was more or less the same time of history that Masinga Dam was constructed. This being the case, it is a shame that when one travels to the Kariba Dam in Zambia, they find that this dam is such a huge success. The dam has changed the lives of the local people of Zambia in that area to the extent that this place is a beehive of tourists who bring money to the local community. You will find water sports and an abundance of fish because of the good management of the Kariba Dam. I would like to keep this short but end in reminding the current Government that the former Government of President Kibaki was about to make a very serious mistake along river Nzoia. I am pleading with the Jubilee Government to completely move away from the thinking of President Kibaki. They wanted to build a dam that would be halfway in Kakamega covering Lugari and Likuyani constituencies and halfway in Bungoma covering Kimilili and Tongaren constituencies. If the Government, through KenGen, is not able to manage Masinga, what assurance do we have as the people of Kakamega and Bungoma counties that if they bring another dam in that place, things will become better? Being unable to manage one dam only confirms that a second dam will be a disaster. The dams have no dusters and we do not want the dam. In fact, our problem in Western Province is that we experience too much rain. So, why do they want to give us irrigation fed agriculture? We do not need it. Let that money that is intended to do that on River Nzoia in Kakamega and Bungoma be used for the improvement of Masinga Dam. With those final remarks, I support."
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