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"speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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"content": "I assure the House that this morning, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury called an emergency meeting with the CS for water, CS for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the CS for Devolution. The President will launch a large scale intervention maybe by Monday or Tuesday, where government agencies will draw all the water bowsers they have from all the water service boards, regional authorities, the National Youth Service (NYS) and the military. Over 70 water bowsers will be availed to be sent to specific constituencies. We have also asked the CS for Devolution to make sure that each and every Kenyan has food. Parliament is under obligation. We are going to regularise for him in the Supplementary Budget. He can spend Kshs2 billion. That is what they are planning to do. So, Government is alive to it. However, for how long are we going to be reactive? For how long are we going to say every time we want emergency relief? We want our county governments to invest in water. I know some people will accuse me but in my community they say even the devil must have his due. The governor of Wajir is not my friend but let me say what he has done. He has dug more boreholes than any other governor in North Eastern or in ASAL areas. Today, some of the livestock from Mandera and Garissa are in Wajir. If each and every governor invested---"
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