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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "the one which was done 28 years ago. When you check on these projects and see the delays that have taken place, you cannot avoid thinking that the idea of the cancellation of the Kimwarer project is more political than the reality on the ground. It is very unfortunate that we can politicize very important projects that are aimed at solving problems that have been facing people since time immemorial. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to that place, you will never fail to sympathize with the people living there. These people travel up to 300 kilometres to get water. Water is life. What hurts most is that there are so many dams in this country which are worth about Kshs156 billion. However, the question that is now in everyone’s mind is: Why Kimwarer and Arror? Even if these dams were affected by some scandals, it is high time that the Government narrows down to those particular thieves or those involved in the scandals. The projects should not be cancelled. This is punishing innocent people because of one or two people. In any time in history, we will never lack people who have problems. How come whenever there is s problem somewhere, we cancel the whole project that could benefit millions of people because of some few individuals? The cancellation of Kimwarer Dam is more political than reality. You can never convince people in that area that it is genuine. Even those people who went to investigate the status of those projects are not even closer to that place. They did most of their work in hotels in Eldoret. They never frequently visited those places to find out the actual problems of those areas. It is high time that we rise to the occasion. I hope the Committee that will investigate this matter will be fair to the people of Eleyo-Marakwet because they pay taxes just like any other citizens in this country. Why should it be an issue to the point of cancellation when it comes to the projects designed to benefit them? I will be very happy to see other dams that were proposed together with Kimwarer being investigated, and we see the same solution happen to them. This selective idea of investigating some particular projects in a particular area, during a particular political period concerning some places, no one can understand that it is genuine. Everybody will take it is as if it is political. I urge the Committee that will investigate this, to assist not us who have water where we come from, but the people Elgeyo-Marakwet who are taxpayers in this country. They have suffered for a long time because of lack water. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Petition. I want to encourage it to continue. When it comes to compensation, the land owners of most of the other dams in this country in Kiambu, Machakos and everywhere else have been adequately compensated. Why was the compensation of these other projects delayed? It raises another question. As one of the leaders from those regions, we are not going to relent until the rights of the people of this area are honoured and taken seriously."
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