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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you. Thank you, Sen. Olekina, for that information. Thank you for concurring that indeed the focus to areas within counties is more accurate. I will just reiterate what I said earlier that the amounts that are proposed are minimal and they will have zero effects even if we do it for the next 50 years. We need to pump money where in a particular county you identify areas which are marginalised in that county and allocate Kshs20 billion for development of infrastructure and the productive sectors in that county consistently for about 20 to 30 years. That is what will bring turn-around. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will say two more points because I see time is up. The first one is on the need to shift the thinking of Kenyans from Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 which is the source of all these problems. That the so-called wasteland hosts the future of our country. There is something in development politics called solidarity development where you pump money or resources to an area that does not appear to be bringing returns to the economy today. That is with the hope that in future the whole country will depend on that area when we have depleted the resources that are productive today. Therefore, some of these areas should even have very good incentives for investors, tax incentives for development and so forth and so on. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the last point I want to make is the following. We must differentiate between rural poverty and urban poverty. Both sets of poverty are bad enough but rural poverty is more debilitating. While an urban slam dweller could have electricity in their shack, the rural peasant has no power, water and hospital. In any case, the nearest hospital in a rural constituency is 10 kilometres away. Thank you. My time is up."
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