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    "id": 1106573,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "people in Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kibra, and other slum areas. We need those areas to be part of those that are identified, because they are marginalized in one way or the other. Today I sat in the Committee on Roads and Transportation. The National Treasury was giving specially permitted contracts in the development of Level 3 and Level 4 hospitals in areas and constructing roads within the upgrading areas. In future, we must widen the scope. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we no longer talk about Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and forest evictees. The people who are being marginalized in Nairobi and other cities are what we now call infrastructural evictees. Nowadays, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) or any other agency evict people. What happens to infrastructural evictees? They become part of the marginalized within the cities. I hope that we can look at this in future. Looking at the population of Nandi of 885,771 people, getting around 19 areas of identification out of 1,424 is very crucial. Secondly, I agree that apart from looking at the urban and rural poor, we must be in the spirit of the marginalization of the Constitution of Kenya. We are aware that in this second marginalization policy, there were other communities that were identified to be marginalized such as the El Molo, Makonde, Ndorobo, Selata and Wata. There are other communities that have continued to be marginalized. We, however, agree that the problem is with Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. They said that Kenya should identify high potential areas and imagined that low potential areas would get the opportunity. That is what we call a trickle effect. We got it wrong from Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. They imagined that the high potential areas that were identified could trickle down to low potential areas. That is where we come in with the bottoms-up approach. We want to ensure that we do not only bring up high potential areas, but ensure that all areas unlike the exclusion of Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 benefit. We know it excluded some areas, especially in the northern part of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I can tell you that in future, the northern part of Kenya and the North Rift will be able to sustain these other areas. We want solar energy. We can harvest it in the northern part of Kenya. It will supply electricity to Nairobi and other areas which were thought to be the high potential areas in the past. It has shown that the trickle down approach does not work. Let us change and go for a bottom up approach of doing things. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, another factor is colonial policies and practices. Also, adequate post-colonial corrective and distributive policies were never done. The country has come from far. I have talked about Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. We came with the Harambee philosophy where we used to pull resources to develop. I see people demonizing Harambee . It is the foundation. Our founding fathers were the initiators of Harambee philosophy, where communities would pull resources together and ensure that they fund projects. This Harambee philosophy has been reincarnated through Article 204 of the Consultation through the Equalization Fund."
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