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    "id": 639697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Chair that my interest is the completion of the dam. My prayer is that the matters before court end as soon as possible so that the dam project can be revived through issuance of another tender.We know the cases of Umaa, Chemususu and Kiserian dams. Badasa Dam was also one of them. That is why we had a lot of hope in it. These kinds of variations which were given are covering for some technical faults which the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation should have taken responsibility for. When the technical faults were noted, the contractor was told to extend their stay. It reached a point where they could not continue forever because the cost of the dam was twice the initial cost. The cost is now about Kshs4.3 billion instead of the Kshs2 billion which was supposed to complete it. As a result of some technical incompetence or oversights, we are losing taxpayers’ money on such an important project. The relevant Government department, like the National Treasury, should have been taken to task to explain why the anomaly happened. They had supervisors on the ground yet we reached these kinds of overruns and there is no project. At the end of the day, the people of Marsabit County have nothing out of the Kshs2 billion which has been spent on that project."
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