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    "content": "Fisheries, to ask serious questions about the use or misuse of public funds in irrigation schemes. Alot has been said about the Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme, which is perhaps the most recent. Before then, we had the Hola Irrigation Scheme, where billions of taxpayers’ money was pumped in. However, those irrigation schemes lie as white elephants today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, next to Hola and Galana-Kulalu, there is an irrigation scheme in Mwingi North Constituency of Kitui County called Wikithuki Irrigation Scheme. Here, billions of shillings have been sunk and farmers and the community set aside more than 10,000 acres for irrigation. However, simply because somebody did not want to pay the electricity bill for the project, that project stalled. The only good thing that this Bill has done is to give us, as the leadership of counties, an opportunity to open up investigations into how these billions of shillings were thrown into these projects. We should take that opportunity to call things and people by their names. We should call corruption by its name and thieves and murderers by their names. Lastly, because of the failures of the National Irrigation Board (NIB), there is absolutely nothing in the change of a name from an irrigation board to an irrigation authority that would make this Bill worth even the paper on which it is written. With those remarks, I oppose."
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