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    "id": 951500,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/951500/?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",
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    "content": "integral part of the contract.To the best of our knowledge the contractors have now finalized the design of the project. On lack of feasibility study and existence of a fault line, the report’s suggestion that no feasibility study on Kimwarer dam has been conducted and reliance on a feasibility study conducted two decades ago indicating the existence of a faultline is completely misleading. This is because the Report does not take into account the fact that under the present project, a comprehensive geo-technical study has been concluded by the current contractor and no significant geological concerns identified. Further, under the contract, all risks on design and construction are borne by the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractor, hence, no project risks are envisaged or unmitigated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the question of compensation, Article 40 of our Constitution protects property rights and recognises that whenever such property is compulsorily acquired for public purposes, full, prompt and fair compensation is payable. The Petitioners are aware that the Government of Kenya has paid out billions of shillings to landowners in relation to displacement and resettlement of people in various dam projects: Thwake Dam in Kitui County, Kshs3 billion; Karumenu Dam in Kiambu County, Kshs3 billion; Ruiru Dam II in Kiambu County, Kshs3 billion; Thiba Dam in Kirinyaga County, Kshs5 billion and Mwache Dam in Kwale County, Kshs4.9 billion. The Petitioners find the decision to ground the cancelation of the project on the need for compensation to be disturbingly discriminatory of the landowners and communities in Keiyo and Marakwet. On the issue of Operation and Maintenance Costs; it was suggested by the Technical Committee that the water supply mechanism to the dam would involve pumping hence costly and unsustainable. The real position is that water would flow downstream from the dam to a powerhouse to generate 20 MW of electricity and then to irrigate 2,000 Hectares. None of this water would be pumped at any stage."
}