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    "content": "have. Unless we do so, where are our animals going to get water? Where is the money for it? So, we have to put money where it will change our lives. It will mechanize and modernize agriculture. It will provide water services for human consumption and also for livestock. It will also deal with public health. We would depopulate our hospitals if we just looked at public health, if we take clean water, if we make sure that there are no mosquitoes and so on. By doing so, we would reduce illnesses to our children by almost 40 per cent to 60 per cent. But where is the source of that clean water unless we provide money for it? Who will look at public health unless we put money in it? So, public health is now our job. Primary health care is now our job, but where is the money for this? Madam Temporary Speaker, my brothers and sisters have already said that we will be moving amendments, I agree and I support. We should put that money where it changes our lives most. I hope that the amendment will also say that the 2.5 per cent which we have left to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) comes to the county where it can be better managed and be dealt with. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me just say one or two things about national projects in the counties. If we leave the counties the way they are and we do not do some national projects, we will kill them. Let me give my county as an example. Mbita Causeway which joins Mbita mainland and Rusinga Island has blocked the whole of the gulf of Lake Victoria up to Kisumu. If you have gone to Kisumu recently, you may have noted that the water is dirty because there is no circulation and oxygenation of water coming from the deep waters to the gulf. There is now less fish in the gulf although there is a mass of water. This is because oxygen is low and the water is dirty and shallow because of the Mbita Causeway. Now the national government has decided to break it and we have a Chinese contractor working on it. I want to thank the national government for doing that. Sooner or later, within one year, the water should start moving and the fish from that place will start kissing each other and we will have a lot of fish in that area. The other thing that we must do---"
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