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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, during the period, there is no report from WARMA that they ever inspected this weir. From 2003, they never inspected to confirm that, in fact, there was a weir. The permit granted to the dam owners, Mr. Perry Mansukh, and his directors, had conditions. The conditions were to show that he has collected the water that he is permitted to do, which is 50 cubic meters and that he has created and allowed the water to go downstream to the people of Solai. How did a man, who is subject to the law of this country, divert and block a river from 2004 to 2018? What did he think was going to happen when it rained? The photographs in this Report, provided by NCA and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation without hesitation, prove and show in terms of our first mandate that this was a criminal conspiracy by people who were very greedy and prepared to take away the water that was going downstream to Solai. In fact, the report by NCA demonstrates that the water catchment in the whole of Solai leads to the Watkins Stream, which goes into the dam where this man lives. These documents here, in fact, demonstrate that the people at WARMA – a gentleman by the name Thomas Odo – signed the last license for a water weir issued in 2012. He signed it in 2017. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Committee has determined that it is possible that the documents submitted to us were a forgery; given to us for purposes of misleading us and the country that Mr. Patel and Mr. Perry Mansukh had a permit. Otherwise, why would a permit issued in 2012 be signed in 2017? That is not just for one dam. It is for another dam called Tinderes Dam. Tinderes Dam did not have a license for a dam. Tinderes Dam is actually not even a stream; it is a dam that is built on a river and blocked by one person. By the time the Kenya Defence Forces drained that dam, it had 180 million litres of water. It was leaking and about to drain that water into Solai. This Report shows that the people of Solai were even saved. This Report shows that by virtue of breaking of the dam, the flood flow of this Solai Dam was diverted by a greenhouse from Solai Secondary School. It was going straight for the children. The NCA has said that it was an act of God, but the only act of God here is that the flood flow was diverted by a greenhouse. We would be talking about a different story today. What is worse, my dear colleagues, is that if this happened at 10.00 p.m., one- and-a-half hours later, there would be nobody left in their homes in Solai. It was embarrassing to listen to NCA and NEMA telling us that this was an act of God and an accident. It was not an accident; this was deliberate. They knew what they were doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, in our findings, we have proposed criminal action against all those people involved and named them, so that this never happens again. The people of Solai do not sleep at night. A tire burst sends these people out of their homes. The noise that this dam made was like a bomb. When I said this is not a matter to joke about, I was prepared to lose my life. However, I was not going to be intimidated to cover the truth. Mr. Perry Mansukh must pay dearly for two things. One, for diverting water; water is a resource given to us by God and granted to us by this Constitution yet he diverted it for his personal commercial use. The people of Solai must be compensated by him. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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