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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kinyua",
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        "legal_name": "John Kinyua Nderitu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I rise to support this Motion. This is because it has come at the right time. Having come from Laikipia, which is a semi-arid area, I would urge that this Act is passed and implemented so that we stop being reactive and become proactive. That is so because if you go to many parts of Laikipia for example, you will realise that the conflicts that have come about are because of drought. You will find pastoralists and small scale farmers are fighting because of a resource, which is water. As we have been told, the money is there; it is only that we do not have regulations to control its use. Therefore, these regulations should be fast-tracked so that we can have dams done in the rivers. The people downstream and upstream are fighting every time because of the water resource and these dams will help our people not to have the problem of infighting. Another thing that I would want to say is that if we have that money and we have these pastoralists moving from one point to the other, we can as well construct schools which will be boarding school. This means that the students will be left in schools learning as the parents go looking for pastures and water; and in so doing, we will not have reduced the levels of our education. Due to this scenario of being reactive as opposed to being proactive, it has resulted in a situation whereby communities are fighting. We end up using so much money bringing police officers to those areas in terms of catering for their food and water, which would not have been necessary if we had provided dams and dug boreholes. If we had done so, we would have reduced the costs by being proactive. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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