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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "those dams. So, they picked the dams from the already identified sites and they did not involve Members. Some regional authorities have insisted on calling up Members to find out the viability and where to place those dams. However, we continuously asked the Ministry, especially through the budgeting process, how they can prevent duplication. The Members of Parliament are putting money through their CDFs. The water services boards are investing in dams and now there is this Kshs.7.5 billion. We have been promised that they are going to ensure that duplication does not take place. The Member for Narok South has brought up a very valid issue that we need to address and I wish the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee was here. There is the fact that those dams cannot be constructed when the rains have come and also, we know that there is a major problem of Exchequer releases in the Government at present. This needs to be addressed so that we do not lose out on that Kshs.7.5 billion in areas where there has been rainfall. On the issue of dams for Kwanza, this is a problem of “cutting and pasting” projects throughout the country. Check dams are not included in this activity. So, they cannot fund check dams when the Budget is for small dams. The Member for Balambala said that we should do big-size dams. That is the right way to go but, as you know, the funding, as budgeted for, was for internal works. The need to spread out that funding to all the constituencies could not allow big dams to be constructed. The last one was from the Member for Embakasi South regarding how to innovatively ensure that urban areas are considered since this is about water harvesting and storage. This is a suggestion that I will present to the Ministry as part of the input from the House."
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