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    "id": 659269,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "supposed to be done by the CS as already provided by Section 40 of the same Bill. It will be wrong for us to take powers from that Authority to another authority which is not supposed to have it. The other issue is an attempt to monopolise water service providers. The Senate wanted each county to establish a water services provider. That is wrong because it will amount to monopoly. It is something that should be discussed and sorted out. The other issue is the community schemes. We said that they should be defined because benefits, for example, loans and things to do with water provision, are supposed to be divided between the national Government, the county government and the communities. If you call them community schemes and you do not give the community the leeway to carry out their own activities, somebody else might do it or fail to do it, and still say that he is carrying those schemes. We thought that is something that should be clarified. The other issue is the Water Scheme Trust Fund. Some communities which have been marginalised for a long time were given the Equalisation Fund. One of the places that this Fund should go to is provision of water. The counties are also supposed to provide water for their people. If you lock out the County Fund from providing water for the people through the Trust Fund, it will be a dangerous thing. The benefit that those people will derive from that is that they will match dollar by dollar such that when the Equalisation Fund gives one dollar, that money that is supposed to come from counterparts should also be one dollar. It will have a multiplier effect. The Committee did a good job. We scrutinised the amendments by the Senate. These amendments should be resolved so that our people can benefit from this very important Bill."
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