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    "id": 114734,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114734/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
        "slug": "josephat-nanok"
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    "content": "First, let me applaud the President for expounding on the priority areas which the Grand Coalition Government will focus on during this Fourth Session of this Parliament. I do so knowing that the President is serving the second part of his last term as the President of this country. There is a lot that is on his shoulders to ensure that this country achieves that. For 20 years now, Kenyans have been yearning for a new Constitution. This is because the present Constitution that is governing this country has so many loopholes and problems to a point where a significant number of Kenyans feel marginalized. They feel that they are living in this country but are outside this country. An example is the Kenyans from the north. When they come to Nairobi, they say that they are going to Kenya. When they leave here, they are now going to an area which has been forgotten. I think that is the reason why every single Kenyan feels that a new constitutional dispensation will help resolve some of these chronic problems that have been in existence up to today. I join the President in saying that we must have a new Constitution. It is not only us, politicians, who want a new Constitution; majority of Kenyans out there, all the way from Lokichogio to Mombasa, Kisumu to Lamu, need a new Constitution in place. I believe that the new Constitution that has been laid here has more or less addressed quite a significant number of issues that have been a problem in this country. I can only urge my colleagues that let us join the President in making sure that we have done our constitutional role and give Kenyans what they deserve so that they can have a piece of legislation that can govern this country for the next period to come. In his Speech, the President has also outlined certain key areas that may help sort out the inequitable distribution and allocation of resources in this country. I so much support his statement with regard to infrastructure, particularly the opening up of the northern areas, the second transport corridor that will link a new port in Lamu all the way to Ethiopia and then to Southern Sudan. I believe this is laudable because our policies in this country have always concentrated on old resources in 20 percent of this country’s land mass. The potential of 80 per cent of the arable land of this country has never been tapped. It is this potential that exists in this 80 per cent of this country that will propel this country forward because we have exhausted any little resources that we have in 20 per cent of the land mass. If you look at what is happening in the water tables, all those problems of encroachment in the water towers is as a result of population coming from everywhere"
}