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    "id": 93291,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. I want to commend the Minister for Water and Irrigation, Mrs. Ngilu, for presenting such a very well thought-out budgetary Vote. I have got one or two points here. One of them is that some of us come from agro-pastoral areas. Some of those areas are partly agricultural and partly pastoral. I want to point out that--- For those who have flown across South Africa, they must have seen what the whole of South Africa looks like. It is dams and pans all over in the belt. I want to urge the Minister - in future or even now - to consider putting up pans and dams for livestock farmers. That is very important. We might as well copy the South African farmers who are very experienced and have been doing a lot of development for a long time. It is important to start thinking and planning in that kind of way. Secondly, I want to commend the Minister because we in the pastoralist area – and in particular Narok where I come from - have been given water services all over Narok. You cannot do everything for one year. But what we see now is so important because the services have gone to most of the areas in Narok. But I want to mention one thing about Narok Town. I want the Minister to take this issue seriously. This is a colonial town. It was there during the colonial time. The water supply there was developed by the British. It was very effective even during the old days when some of us were very young people. But now, everything concerning water supply in Narok has broken down. The water is not being supplied to the town or its environs. What has happened is that some speculators have gone to Narok River, got water with their tanks and are selling it to the residents. You can be sure that, that kind of water will not be clean. It could start problems of cholera, typhoid and other things. Please, look into the water supply of Narok. That is because it has broken down completely. I think the piping is still there. The machines are still there and, maybe, they need a bit of rehabilitation to start working. The population of the town has risen by many bounds. It used to be a town with a population of about 2,000 or 3,000 people. Now it has 30,000 people. Those people really need clean water. If they do not get clean water, there will be a problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say very clearly that we have confidence in the Ministry and we think that it will be able to help us."
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