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    "id": 948800,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948800/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In those good old days, I used to go to a small town called Ortum, in West Pokot, where my elder brother was teaching in a school. Next to Ortum was a River called Murunyi, which had a heavy flow of clean water. We would walk into the river and see fish in it. We would drink water without consequences to our health. However today, River Murunyi is seasonal, and it flows less than eight months a year. The rivers that used to flow from Mt. Elgon to form major tributaries of River Nzoia into Lake Victoria and River Sio are also now seasonal. Madam Temporary Speaker, where you come from, a little child can walk across River Nyando at certain parts of the year. They are not rivers anymore; they are gullies carrying storm water when it rains. That storm water is not any different from the gullies you find in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), where rains in far distant areas ravage and carry away animals, human beings, et cetera. Within 30 minutes, what looked like a massive river is no more; it is just storm water. That is what we have reduced our country to. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other day when we were going to Kitui for the Senate sitting, I stopped on the way from Machakos to Kitui to look at Athi River, and it is a sorry state. It is not a river; it is sludge of some greasy substance that looks like flowing water, which carries all the effluent and filth from Nairobi, parts of Thika and Kilimambogo. I am not sure whether the sewage treatment plant in Dadora treats the water adequately before it is released into Athi River. That river is the lifeline of over a million people. They bath, fish and drink in it---"
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