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"speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I believe that Tana River County is named after River Tana, which is the largest river in Kenya, rising from the water shade of Mt. Kenya all the way down through Garissa and Tana River into the Indian Ocean where it empties its water. What the Chairperson has read us was written from a desk. Nobody went to see the river meander, where it wastes its alluvial deposits and the kind of devastation that people face during the floods. Why can we not save the water before it is emptied into the Indian Ocean? There is a lot of good water that goes to waste into the Indian Ocean. Elsewhere in the world, people who live along the rivers make sure that agriculture is influenced by the river. Why can the Ministry of Devolution and Planning not think of how to utilize rivers? Secondly, can we not have people instead of writing all that literature to go to Tana River and other related counties along the river to start irrigation works which is easy if not boreholes because of lowering the water table?The other one is about the Meteorological Department. To me, it is a department that does not function in this country. The Meteorological Department does not tell us the truth about the pattern, distribution of rainfall in totality and precipitation."
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