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Kangundo MP Fabian Muli has proposed that the Kenya Kwanza administration should stop building dams and instead contract the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to supply water across the nation from the Indian Ocean and Lake Victoria.

The legislator urged the government to cut all the budgets allocated for the construction of dams and drilling of boreholes and instead hand the money to the Kenyan army to pump water for countrywide supply from the large water sources.

The lawmaker was speaking in the National Assembly during the debate on a petition by a Migori-based engineer Victor Okuna who had petitioned the August House to amend the Water Act (2016) to provide for solarized ward-based boreholes to address the perennial water shortages.

“I feel I have a special submission of this petition. I won’t feel well if you don’t submit it to this petition. Madam speaker on this petitioner, on matters of water, we have issues with the drilling of the boreholes and the dams.

“It is the high time we stop this nonsense of drilling boreholes and dams we need to cut all the budgets, give to Kenya Army, bring the water in the Indian Ocean & Lake Victoria and pump to the whole country. That is my submission which speaker I would have felt bad if I don’t put them at this time thank you very much, Madam Speaker,” the MP said.

The petitioner had proposed the drilling of boreholes in wards nationwide to help address water scarcity.

Okuna argued that solar-powered boreholes will provide a sustainable solution to the challenges brought about by climate change, including drought affecting almost 23 counties.