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    "id": 496998,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "There is the other problem of the Trust Fund. The Trust Fund, in as much as it has been established before, has a very academic process in terms of how the funds are acquired. One has to go through all manner of proposals and things like that for purposes of getting money from the Water Fund. In terms of implementation, sometimes, certain areas apply and get funding and yet, they have other service providers. So, you will get a number of pipes or service providers in one area and a lot more other areas are not covered by water services. So, what there is this: The Water Trust Fund, before the funds are given to any applicant, I think due diligence needs to be conducted so that we do not have services heaped in one place and yet, we have very many other places that do not have water. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing that the Bill really must look at is the whole issue of changes that we are constantly having in the water sector, but with little public knowledge or information in terms of how those services are supposed to be rendered. So, by the end of the day, users or water consumers do not know exactly where you place the blame when there are problems. Like now, the Constitution makes it very clear, if you look at Article 43 1(d), every citizen has a right to clean safe water and in adequate quantities. That provision of the Constitution has not, in any manner, been looked at very properly by the Bill. The Bill is not clearly indicating to what extent we are able to meet or provide that right as is properly indicated in the Constitution. It is the right of every Kenyan or citizen to have clean and safe water. It is not just clean and safe water, but also in adequate quantities. That now gets connected with the issue of payments. If water services are disconnected, at a period when the citizens have paid their bit and on the other hand, a water board for example has not, what happens? I think the Government and the Ministry concerned must be very serious in terms of looking at exactly what happens if the lower service providers have played their part very well and the upper echelons in terms of the national arrangements have not done their part. The Bill further brings in the bureaucracies that initially were there, including those many other bodies that were created. In my view, the best thing is to have one regulatory body. That will be enough such that we do not have many other bodies. For example, if you look at how they are constituted and what exactly they are supposed to do, there is a lot of duplication. Those are some of the things that the Bill must address adequately. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to support the Bill and I want to believe that the Bill will be much better when some---"
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