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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu",
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    "content": "have no problem with the first two. Maybe going forward when we come for the Third Reading, we will raise a question. Clause 4(e) states that when the Board constitutes, it will demand and certify hydrological studies and reports necessary for the design of hydrological structures. We have been talking for a while about the tunnels that are being built in the Aberdares. It is the history that has been compiled by hydrologists or such bodies that has informed whether this is the right thing to do now or it will become a white elephant. I am not saying that is the case but I have visited the tunnel. It drains and affects people living downstream and other rivers that it will extract water from. When we visited it, we found some hydrologists and some Chinese. They told us that there is a model that is covered that we could not see. In due course, we would want to see it because we want to be sure about the history of the rivers and whether they will feed the tunnel without affecting the people downstream, just like the people living around there said. I am not saying that there is no hydrological data but I am only trying to say that we need to have people who are responsible and who are regulated so that if they give wrong information that will lead to the Government spending billions then it becomes a white elephant or at some stage we have an outcry like in the case I gave of the Ewaso Nyiro River, then they can be held to account. Clause 6 is on the composition of the Board. It is too Government except for two people; all the others are ex-officio meaning that if the Government is not available, the Board may not even function. I suggest that we have more members from organisations that deal with water resources. Finally, hydrologists should look at and define riparian areas. It is a problem and it is part of their duty among others like advising on control of floods and many other things. It is a profession that has a lot of input in life."
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