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    "id": 398832,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chelule",
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        "legal_name": "Liza Chelule",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this particular moment to support this Motion. I want to thank and congratulate Sen. Zipporah Kittony for coming up with this wonderful Motion. It is a Motion that is touching on women in the country, and this is what I like, as usual. I wanted to support it this way, but I believe we have some policies on water but the problem in our country is how they are supposed to be implemented; the implementation part of it is the worst problem. I want to take this opportunity to request the Committee on Implementation to look at all those Motions we have passed in the form of policies to make sure that they are implemented at the county government level. We all know that it is the mandate of the national Government to formulate policies, while it is the mandate of the county government to implement these policies. But surprisingly, every time you want to know whether something has been implemented, normally if it is related to budgets; we are told that it has not been budgeted for. So, it is my humble request that as Senators, we should make sure that every policy or Motion that we pass in this House is implemented to the letter, because it is not going to help us with anything to just pass Motions to even urge the Government to come up with policies on many issues when the implementation part of it is the problem. So, the problem in our country is the implementation. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is this issue of the international agreements that have been signed between Kenya and other countries about our waters; that we do not have control over our waters. You know at this particular time, we cannot use our water the way we would want to and our children are suffering. As Senators, I think we also need to decide what to do about these conventions, agreements or whatever else they are called; the kind of agreements that we did with Egypt. The fact that we cannot freely use our water in Lake Victoria is so embarrassing. But as we stand today, we do not have powers to use our water. We all know that we have idle youth and as I stand here today, there are so many youth who should be dedicating themselves to farming and irrigation at home, but they cannot use these waters freely. I once went to Kisumu and saw so many idle youth there; the women were suffering, that place is very hot but they cannot use that water from Lake Victoria. So, I think as Senators, it is our mandate to come up with a way of addressing the issue arising from those funny agreements. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to congratulate Sen. Zipporah Kittony for coming up with this Motion and I want to say thank you for giving me this time. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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