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    "id": 1085496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to speak to this report and the regulations. I support it on the basis that it is one of the reasons why operationalisation of this Fund has not taken place. Unfortunately, there are things we are not comfortable with. Listening to some of our colleagues, there is need for us to travel widely in the country to appreciate the difficulties some Kenyans living in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) have. This Fund is a constitutional Fund, and it is unfortunate that nothing much has been done nine years after the promulgation of the Constitution 2010. There is the court action and that ruling has kind of shaped what has been included in these regulations, and we need to appreciate that. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) has tried within the constraints of the ruling of that case to ensure that there is broad participation of stakeholders particularly in terms of project identification. This Fund was meant to help the marginalised areas enjoy quality of service which is as close as those enjoyed in other parts of the country. Specifically, it was meant to look at service provision in terms of water, electricity and health among others. To help my colleagues appreciate the difficulties some of the people we are representing in this House are going through… In my constituency, I have seven wards and out of that four of the wards 80 per cent of the residents have no access to any form of water. Women take the whole day to access water that is not fit for human consumption. At Cherop, the entire division has no single borehole providing clean water. We only have pans which are impounded when it rains. The kind of water, we consume I think none of us in this House will dare drink it, however thirsty one may be. If you look at electricity, we only hear about it. My 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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