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    "id": 963505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support Sen. Wario for bringing this Statement to the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, every time there is drought, people from the area where Sen. Wario and I come from, suffer from hunger. When there is abundant rain, they suffer from flooding. They live from one catastrophe to the next. It is high time the Government made some effort in ensuring that people from this area are supported in terms of how to deal with these disasters. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is more sad when the disaster is manmade. A Government institution that is supposed to protect the citizens is the one that is now causing part of their problem. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it does not need rocket science to ensure that mitigation plans are put in place because these rains were predicted much earlier. People knew it was going to happen. What mitigation measures were put in place to ensure that the flooding of 2017 did not happen? There were no mitigation measures and as usual, the excess water was let into the Tana Rive. This has caused the people of Tana River undue suffering. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we speak, there so many communities in my county who are locked out because of rain water and the roads are so bad that they are impassable. Therefore, people cannot even access the county headquarters. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it reaches a point where we feel this is just too much. The company responsible for generating electricity Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) should have created an extra reservoir so that the water that was going to be wasted would have been kept in that reservoir. When the water of Tana River becomes less, then they would have let that water go into the river. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot sing the same song year in, year out and yet the people of Tana River and all these other marginalized counties need a solution from this great Government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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