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    "id": 621525,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kivuti",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 55,
        "legal_name": "Lenny Maxwell Kivuti",
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    "content": "I am sorry about the state of my voice because I am a bit unwell. Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I like what the Senate Minority Leader said about the quality of debate and laws that we make in this House and I support the quality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this law has been around for two years now. The Bill came here for First Reading and all the Members of this House had an occasion to contribute and give their views about the importance of water in this country. This Bill went for Second Reading and I know that whoever was not there during the First Reading came back and contributed. That is the contribution of the hon. Senators of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we did carried out public participation. We put out notices in all newspapers and got many comments; including the international community, embassies and people from the villages. I can assure this House that the contributions which came were not few. We went through each and every one of them. My Committee did not see and wish away a contribution because it came from whatever source. We actually went through each one of them. The result we got was included in the wishes of Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we got information that other quarters and stakeholders, particularly the governors, were still unhappy. In fact, I want to be very open and state that I got comments from two other Members of this House who relooked at the Bill and felt that some clauses needed to be changed. I took time to talk to the Ministry. I wanted to know if they felt that we needed to interrogate this Bill further. Because of that, we had another high level consultative seminar in Naivasha for three days. We went through this Bill word for word; from page one up to 118. I still have my copy of everything that was discussed in that seminar. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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