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    "content": "Five minutes? Seconding is 20 minutes. I was making sure I am not being intimidated by the light. The plethora of inconsistencies in the submissions of the CS for Water and Sanitation, the lack of record keeping on the dams and so on proves to us, there was some forgery. There is an analysis on page 62 of the Report. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has given us an idea of approvals done this year and signed five years later. It is a joke and a charade. I think maybe these people have been spoilt by inquiries where people just gloss over issues. We went to the depth of this matter. We want a thorough investigation on it. It was evident to the staff of WARMA that they had been approving a weir licence for a dam. The weir was of 2.5 metres high to take a capacity of 50 cubic metres during normal times and 2,045 during floods. They kept renewing that approval knowing fully well that there was a dam of three million litres. It is true. When the lawyer came here, who is my friend, but very arrogant - he said arrogantly that if there was a licence, it would not have stopped the dam from collapsing or the rains from coming down. The reason we have rules in this country is that by the time you licensed that dam, you have seen its structural integrity and the spillways – this dam did not have single a spillway – and you have made sure that no matter the kind of rain that comes down, people downstream, with a gradient of four degrees, will not be swept away because of a flood. That is why we are insisting on that omission on the law. The owner did not apply and was not granted a dam licence on that stream. It is painful --- 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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