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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "content": "Government that promised to say and deliver. My efforts to have them fixed have been blocked by lack of finances. This House must take its mandate very seriously. Why should we have perennial floods when we have a Government with a fully fledged Ministry of Devolution and Planning? They are supposed to plan and know what we have and how to prioritize it. Why do we not deal with this flood issue once and for all? I have had the benefit of travelling to Cairo. I travelled all the way to Alexandria. As you try to travel to the countryside, it is a desert but when you look outside, there is favourable land because there are no floods. What disturbs you is to see the vegetation green, courtesy of water from the lakes. Those people know how to harness water and make use of it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a shame that in Kenya, in big supermarkets and even local markets here, the best product that you can put on either comes from Israel, South Africa or Cairo, in Egypt. Save for South Africa, the two are serious arid areas but they are making best use of their resources to do things that can help their citizenry. But here, we want to vet people with Kshs2 billion while people are dying because of floods, roads are not passable and bridges are not there. Why do we not have priority? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we enjoy very cordial relationship with the Israel Government and now we are enjoying very good cordial relationship with the Chinese Government, they are very good. The other day our President went to tour China. I am very happy when he came back he came with big goodies, but when he opened them, I never saw anything on irrigation. I did not see much about flood control; when these people are specialists in flood control. They have made use of their technology and resources in controlling floods in their countries very well. Instead of asking for many fabulous things, why can we not--- I am happy we have asked for infrastructure and they have helped us. Why do we not ask for help on floods control; or is it because maybe, the people who are worst hit may not be our endeared species politically? I believe that this may not be the case. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have respect for the ruling class, they are young and they must be in a position to correct the ills that were done by their predecessors, so that they can give me the right of convincing the Luo people that these people are not as bad as the old ones. But when their issues are not addressed, we have difficulties in bringing them together. We want to help and we want to live as a country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am very happy Parliament is becoming sober now. We are talking and in this Parliament people are able to operate as Kenyans. Those polarizations are gone. We also want to be in the major Government; the advisors and those people around the ruling mandarins to give them room to see Kenya as Kenya. I want to tell them that the question of rampant floods in western Kenya; especially in Muhoroni and Nyando and to some extent Budalangi must be addressed. When it is addressed, lives will be saved. When lives are saved, Kenya will be stable and peaceful and then we can talk about growth. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to remind this House that we need to prioritize that region because we need to fulfill the promise of Ahero Pilot Rice Irrigation Scheme rather than having cosmetics like Mwea Irrigation The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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