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    "id": 1105224,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105224/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13473,
        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": "of power. We have somebody sitting in Nairobi making decisions on behalf of the people of Marsabit and we also have the Governor on the ground. That has caused paralysis in terms of decision-making and also making the Governor unable to move forward to address issues of insecurity. Over the last three days, four people have been killed. They are Mr. Matta Waqo, who was the Chairman of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee in Marsabit; Mzee Issac Golo, a businessman who was gunned down in Marsabit Town; and, two other young men who were killed just around Marsabit Town. If those killings and displacements and the effect they have on people of Marsabit do not create any tension in the psyche of Kenyans, I do not know what will. There are few issues that we must bring forth. One is the issue of inequality that is precipitated by the national Government where all resources from the national Government that are directed to Marsabit County, as well as employment opportunities, go to one constituency. That does not in any way give us the privilege to say that the County should do the same. The County and the national Government must provide equity and equality to the people of Marsabit. Over the last two months, two sub-counties were created in Marsabit. That has created a lot of disquiet because sub-counties are about sharing resources and employment yet others are still waiting. Since 2017 when sub-counties and small administrative units like locations, sub- locations and divisions were created, to date, they are yet to be gazetted and operationalised. Yet, sub-counties can just be created and everything is done for them. The people of Northern Kenya are watching. The Jubilee Government is almost perpetrating inequality, discrimination and marginalisation of people who supported it. I finish by thanking the Committee for this Report. It is a fairly good Report. I do not want to go into the literature, but I want to say a final thing. If the national Government in Nairobi thinks that Mr. Ukur Yatani, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury, is Marsabit and Marsabit is CS Ukur Yatani, they will get everything wrong."
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