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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "producing as the blue print for what the institutions in the sector will be dealing with. We will be proposing and agreeing with the Bill to retain the Water Sector Trust Fund that is dealing with providing funds to provide water to areas where water is not affordable. Part V of the Bill deals with dispute resolution by setting up the Water Tribunal. Part VII of the Bill deals with financial provisions and Part VIII deals with the general provisions such as the notices and conditions of issuance of orders. Part IX of the Bill deals with transitional arrangements. I want you to note that one of the major things that we are going to deal with is that--- I am sure that like the stakeholders, Members will be concerned about retaining the huge number of institutions in this sector. We will be proposing radical transitional provisions that will be dealing with the fact that even when retained, there will be vetting at a certain level in those institutions to clean them off the bad images of corruption and non-compliance with issues. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the First Schedule deals with membership of boards of the institutions that are proposed. The Second Schedule relates to the construction works. The Third Schedule deals with access rights. The Fourth Schedule provides for abstraction of ground water and that concludes the contents of the Bill which also includes a Memorandum of Objects and Reasons. As I said in the beginning, we spoke to very many institutions and they raised many issues. One of them was the number of institutions proposed in this Bill. The numbers are actually a copy and paste of what was in the Water Act 2002 and so they are a total of eight institutions. We were trying our best to look for mechanisms of reducing the number of these institutions. It was evident, because we invested in experts to advise us that it is impossible to draw an organogram of the water sector. It is a myriad of institutions which relate in many ways. In our attempt to reduce the number of institutions, we went back to the Constitution and realized that for the national Government to meet its constitutional duties, it would be next to impossible to kill any of these institutions. So, the stakeholders raised many reasons for reducing these institutions from the fact that there is a very high recurrent cost; that there was need for coordination amongst these institutions; and that some of them were no longer valid. For example, some two laws, one on counties and the other on urban cities, had already given some roles to county governments before the time required in the Constitution and some of the roles that they were given included the fact that they could set their own tariffs. So, this would have, probably, rendered 50 per cent of the works of the current Wards Representatives redundant. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the public felt that the independence, transparency and accountability of these institutions are very low, because of that, as I said before, we are going to propose transitional arrangements that will deal with the question of transparency and accountability within the staff in the different institutions."
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