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    "id": 808887,
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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me first of all agree with Hon. Wamalwa and with you that we will be calling some technical people from other ministries. I want to thank Hon. Wario for bringing the Petition. In the 11th Parliament, this issue was brought up by the then Member of Parliament. It went through the same committee and later it was referred to the Implementation Committee, where I was the Vice-Chair. We had opportunity to visit Tana River and the other places and I think as Hon. Duale has indicated, it does not only affect their region. We need to look at the bigger picture and the affected areas more so in Garissa, Tana River, Lamu and other places. I do not want to speak much on this because it will be coming to our committee. However, it is important that when this Parliament speaks and gives directions, they must be followed. If this had been done in the 11th Parliament, the issues my brother, Hon. Wario, is raising would not be there. The then committee had indicated and given a directive on a big dam called the High Grand Falls. The water that goes down comes from three counties in the Meru region, namely, Tharaka Nithi and the neighboring counties. If we had done the High Grand Falls, it would be a very big dam that would have benefited this country in so many ways like addressing that problem and giving energy through hydro power. The same water was supposed to assist Galana Kulalu in terms of irrigation. Those are some of the issues. We will be looking at it as a committee, but we will be calling on the former reports from the other committee."
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