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"content": " Adan Keynan?"
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"content": " No. Adan Keynan…"
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"content": " He was contributing to something on coffee yesterday, and he used the same words you have used. I do not know whether you were in the same history class."
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"content": " Hon. Adan was in primary school when I was a Member of Parliament."
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"content": " Okay, go ahead."
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"content": " No, he was at the university when I was a Member of Parliament. Of course, everybody knows Hon. Adan is an avid debater. He also did history at the university and knows all these things. I am glad that we are thinking more or less along the same lines. We have a country today, and we cannot keep on lamenting the past. The reason we have all these accidents is that there is congestion. The elite in here would rather buy a piece of land in the same high-potential area where the infrastructure is good than buy in far-flung places like Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit and the rest of it. Our psyche as Africans, and as Kenyans, after Independence is either you are going to Mombasa, because that is where the port and beaches are and that is where the affluent people are putting up resources and investing in land, or you are going on the one that goes to Uganda, or taking this one that goes to Nanyuki. That is why the rest of the country is not being developed. Somebody like me, I will tell you, to look at these things and look at where so-and-so's properties are. You will be surprised. Many people from my area are putting up farms in here, the Rift Valley, Mombasa, Lamu and all those places, because those are the only areas they can easily access. Then there is congestion. There are going to be what you call accidents. The same happens when you move from Mombasa by truck. If a truck, a 40-foot container, cannot reach Entebbe, or rather Kampala, in time, it is a problem. When we open up this country, we put up Inland Container Depots (ICDs). They are on the way now, like in Naivasha. We will have ICD in Garissa, Isiolo, and Marakwet, and the country is going to develop. The way to do that is to have this infrastructure perfectly in sync so that we can de-congest Nairobi. Everybody has come to Nairobi. People are wondering why The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "governors and rich people from the North Eastern provinces are not investing in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa but you would understand because there are no roads. For this person to go and visit his investments out there, he will take a week to go to Mandera or Wajir or fly, because there are no tarmac roads. If you go to my constituency right now, you will not see five metres of tarmac. Even in Emurua Dikirr. Many constituencies in the north share the same thing. Children only hear about tarmac, and look at it in the pictures, but they have never seen it. They have to come to Garissa to see what tarmac looks like. This Motion must be translated into a serious policy paper. We are not just talking about what my dear sister said about classes A, B and C. No. We are talking about all the roads. If there are sufficient roads right now that go to all the corners of the North Eastern Province, I can assure you, the north is going to become the breadbasket of this country. We can also do the same in parts of the Rift Valley. Places like Pokot, Samburu, Turkana and Rendille and our Cushitic brothers in Marsabit, Turbi, and all the deserts. Those places can become the centre for tourist attractions. If Nevada can be what it is right now, these are not exceptional. If you can go to San Diego, they do a lot of work right in the centre of the desert. It is one of the biggest economies you have in the USA. I do not know whether it is in California or Nevada. We need to open up the country. Once it opens up, industries will be set up in those places as an incentive. You incentivise industrialists who are going to come and invest in this country by telling them that if they go to far-flung areas, they get a tax haven; they get a tax holiday. That is the way we are going to de-congest Nairobi and address all this joblessness. We keep talking about young men and women who cannot find jobs and who have degrees. Imagine if the factories, industries, airports and the roads are there. You could move from one part of the country to the other in a matter of hours. Hon. Temporary Speaker, can you allow me to have just two minutes? Two minutes."
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"content": " I will allow you 30 seconds to wind up."
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