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    "id": 808851,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Maybe he represents, as the Leader of the Minority Party says, the loyalists. I thank Hon. Wario for bringing this Petition. The matter he brought is of great national importance. The people, who live in the downstream of Garissa County, Tana River County and by extension Lamu County, are victims of deliberate scheme by an institution of the Government to destroy all their hard-earned agricultural produce every time there are rains and dams overflow. This year was worse. Towns, villages and centres were submerged. In fact, in my constituency, Garissa Township, the people who live near the river had their properties and schools submerged. The Committee should expand this Petition to part of Garissa and Lamu counties. The Woman Representative is sitting at the back. I am sure Hon. Obo will also contribute so that we can get a solution to this problem. The same problem also affects the people of Nyando. You cannot just announce on radio that people should vacate their homes and property that they have built. The CS for Energy gives people notice to vacate their homes. How do you leave your home, property and farms that you have invested in for many years? We want the Committee to go to the ground to see the schools, mosques, churches and agricultural produce that has been damaged. We can compensate. This House has the powers of making the budget. The CS for Energy, the board and the CEO of KenGen should go to the ground and see. I am sure the President, the Deputy President and the CS are aware, but we cannot just leave Kenyans to lose their property every year. I am sure Members sitting here are aware and must have seen on television what happened in Lamu, Tana River and Garissa. I support. Hon. Deputy Speaker, please, direct that the Committee moves with speed and visits all the three counties and not just Tana River County."
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