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    "id": 57665,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Hon. Members can go through the document and tell us the areas, as reported here, where water was not provided. We observed that the Ministry had started drilling boreholes countrywide, including Nairobi, Western and Rift Valley provinces. We also discovered, although the Minister had to explain this, that out of the total number of boreholes drilled, 30 per cent of the boreholes were drilled in lower Eastern Province and the justification was, and the Committee understood it, that the shortage of water was acute. I am sure that if the Minister had gone to a place like Takawa in Mandera or North Horr where boreholes were drilled, maybe that perception would not have been there. The perception that many boreholes were drilled in lower Eastern Province was reinforced by the visits that the Minister made and the statements subsequent to that. I am sure that if the Minister could have gone to Takawa, where for 40 years there was not a single borehole drilled maybe that perception would have been diverted. I think it was a question of tact."
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