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    "id": 798597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I would like to join my colleagues in passing my sincere condolences to the people of Nakuru County and to our sister, Sen. Kihika. All of us were horrified by what happened in Nakuru. I happen to be a soil and water conservationist. When we are dealing with water conservation through dam construction, it is very clear that dam construction is a technical area in itself. It is not about creating a storage place for water. It is about measuring to know what would happen or the worst incident that can happen over time. There are rainfall occurrences that you can only see once in your lifetime, because they occur every 100 years. We normally say that when you are doing dam construction, you must construct them with stones that peak only once in 100 years. It looks like this was not done for this dam. My question is focused on who constructed this dam; was it the farmer who did the construction? Did he hire a technical team and, if he did, who were the scientists or engineers who did the construction? This is because it starts from the collection of the water to the embankment that you are building so that it is not destroyed. We do know that, overtime, anything wears out and gets old. However, we are aware that for that to happen, we should not---"
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