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    "id": 893345,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893345/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "As I speak, the people of Baringo County, especially Tiaty Constituency are staring at a disaster of drought. Two days ago, two children in Marakwet East Constituency were brutally murdered by bandits from Tiaty Constituency. This is a contradiction that in the same constituency where they are facing starvation, they have the energy to carry guns and kill people in my county. One of the solutions to the violence that we experience in that region is to have proper irrigation along Kerio Valley. This will make warriors and violent people to have meaningful sources of income. That is where Arror and Kimwarer dams will play an important role. These dams will be the solution to the problem of food insecurity. Here we are talking about over 10,000 hectares being under irrigation and over 100 families accessing piped water. We are talking of direct employment of over 5,000 young people when these projects are completed. My Committee is dealing with the issue of Kimwarer Dam. However, they must come out meticulously because there is a very contradictory behaviour within Government. We will find the Government investing Ksh63 billion for a project. However, once they get donor funding, they say the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) is not ready to give them a licence to construct a dam. It is the same story for the Bosto Dam in Bomet and the Kimwarer and Arror dams. How can the Government fight itself? How can they fight projects that they borrowed money to construct? This is a contradiction. As I was talking with Senator for Wajir County, we agreed that processes of development in this country must be distributed fairly to every part of the country."
}