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    "id": 951502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/951502/?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": "THAT the Petitioners request the Senate to intervene and halt this unfair, discriminatory and arbitrary decision to cancel the Kimwarer and scaling down of Arror Dams on the following grounds- (1) The composition of the Technical Committee is contrary to the provisions of the Public Service (Values and Principles) Act, 2015 which requires impartiality and equity in provision of public service (Section 7(1) (c) and (d) and 7(5) of the Act) to the extent that all the members of the Technical Committee do not represent the ethnic, gender and regional diversity in Kenya. (2) The establishment of the Technical Committee was not made by the President in writing and under seal in terms of Article 135 of the Constitution and the committee’s precise composition and mandate was unknown to Kenyans until the time it submitted its findings. (3) The Report of the Committee is not available to the public hence denying the public the right to assess the validity of its findings in detail. (4) The decision to establish an ad-hoc Technical Committee to investigate only two projects out of hundreds of projects across the country and to use the results of that investigation to deny the people of Elgeyo Marakwet County their rightful share of national development amounts to gross violation of the Constitution. (4) The decision of H.E the President to revoke an international contract is likely to constitute a unilateral breach that will occasion colossal financial loss to the country which liability will diminish revenue available for sharing between national and county governments and thus detrimental to the people of Kenya. (5) The decision to ground the cancellation of the Kimwarer and Arror dam projects on the need for compensation of landowners is flagrant discrimination in light of the massive land related compensation made elsewhere by the Kenyan Government with respect to numerous infrastructure projects."
}