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    "id": 792089,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "id": 1750,
        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "The responsibility of managing water, first and foremost as provide for in our Constitution lies with the county governments. I urge our Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) to take up this Motion in all the countries and make them to Bills so that every county in Kenya can invest money to ensure that management of water during the rainy season is taken into consideration so that when there is drought we can also sort it out. In Kenya, there are complaints. When it rains, we say there is too much water and when there is no rain, we say there is drought and we have a problem. Let the MCAs take charge and deal with it because it is a county matter. Finally, let me reiterate what my colleague, Hon. Kanchory Memusi, has said about Motions. I do not know whether there is anywhere else in the world where legislators spend, once a week, a whole morning session talking for the sake of it. The truth be told: these Motions never see the light of day. The minute they are called Motions, what we say is, “we are urging the Government; we are resolving that the Government should” but we have no implementation mechanism. I would propose that from now, every Motion before it is brought to the Floor, the Clerk’s Office can look at it and see where it can fit. Either it can be a stand-alone Bill or it can be an amendment to an existing Bill. Even this current one I can tell you that there is a water management Bill in existence. This could even have been used as an amendment to the Water Management Bill. It is the right time for us to do away with them and deal with Bills only so that taxpayers’ money can be put to good use. I support the sentiments. Thank you."
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