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    "content": "Let me ask a rhetorical question. Who, in his right frame of mind, can say water does not concern counties? There is a Bill in the National Assembly – I do not know whether it has been passed – on water; debating the volume of water and about the rivers and aquifers in Turkana, among other things. How can anybody say that the largest underground lake in this region, based in Turkana, does not concern counties? How can one say that Ndakaini Dam does not concern counties? How can anybody say that Ewaso Nyiro, Tana River, Athi River, Nzoia and Yala Rivers do not concern counties? How conceivable can anybody imagine that one can sit in Nairobi in Maji House and determine how water will be used in Turkana and Moyale? We must challenge that Bill in the Supreme Court. When it comes to conservation and preservation of water sources, reticulation and regulation of water use, protection of the environment, all these concern counties. Who is planting trees in Mt. Elgon? It is the County of Bungoma and not the Government in Nairobi. Who is protecting the hills of Pokot? Who is protecting the water levels of Lake Turkana? Who is protecting Lake Chile and Lake Chala? It is the Government of the counties where the resources are based. Who is cleaning the beaches of the Indian Ocean? How can anybody pretend that water does not concern counties? Very soon, we will be told that even livestock trade does not concern counties. Very soon, we will be told that people in Nairobi will sit here and regulate how much chicken will be eaten by Luhyas in Western. This is not acceptable. That is why as a law abiding Senate, we will go to the Supreme Court. We are not threatening anybody. We are going to the Supreme Court because we have the right to do so. The Constitution gives us the right and we will go there; tunyenyekee mbele ya"
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