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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Question if you are lucky. But, today, water is the issue. So, the Government should focus more on water. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to finalise, I read in the report that - and this is one of the challenges - whenever there is donor funding, those donors do not want to co-ordinate with the Government and agree over which areas are hard pressed. The Government has all the data. The recommendation on page 28 reads as follows:- “The Committee further observed that the funding by other development partners has not been equally distributed to all needy regions in the country.” This is a big challenge. You get a donor coming into the country and they still want to put money where there is already a lot of money by the Government. Where are the other players? I want to give an example. In the last Parliament, I got a donor called Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). They came to a centre in a market called Kyasome. They drilled a borehole. A month later, we got Egyptians coming to drill a borehole in the same market in a secondary school. My plea to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to convince the Egyptians to move to another centre did not bear any fruits. These are some of the challenges. Yes, we want the aid, but that aid has to meet certain standards here. They must liaise with our ministry. We know that, sometimes, they want to liaise because of issues of office. But I want to imagine that, that is happening today. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to finalize, and this has been from the Minister’s own words and it is a challenge to the ministry, there is the issue of pollution. As a ministry, what are you doing? This is no longer your docket alone. Water in Athi River today is not suitable for irrigation and human consumption. Water from boreholes which was consumable before is now turning to be unfit for human consumption. We really want to know whether the Government is aware of the challenges that you are facing. With those remarks, I wish to support."
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