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    "id": 381984,
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    "speaker_name": "July 4, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 29 Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I stand guided by your direction. The KWS should open a station there so that they can tell us how to live with these reptiles and then come up with a compensation scheme. If they can turn part of the lake to be a wildlife sanctuary, then they should tell us how we can stay with those reptiles. The child mortality rate is very high because of the presence of the mosquitoes that I have just mentioned. I can give a living example. There is a very good resort in Turkwel which has become dilapidated because of migration of KENGEN staff, where one woman carried a dying child in her hands for several kilometres, for two days on the mountain and found us in the camp. This child died when we were watching. She told us that if there was a dispensary her child would not have died. These are the issues that I am mentioning. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, whenever the Government puts in place a plant, is there no mechanism put in place so that when this plant comes up, they make sure that the community benefits? When KENGEN staff moved away last year, there is no vehicle on site. Occasionally, the local community used their buses to go to town and back. Now that has been cut off completely. The staff of KENGEN sometimes operated as though they were not Kenyans. So, you find that there are two worlds there; people in the camp are totally different from those outside the camp. So, I would like to urge that the relevant department gives us a comprehensive direction on how this can be done. I would like to see the people given appropriate land. Irrigation should be done downstream between the two counties. The one million acres we were talking about are ready. The water is already there. The Government needs to allocate a substantial amount of money and then incorporate the community so that they can also benefit from the irrigation scheme. I beg to move and I ask Sen. Sang to second this Motion."
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