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    "id": 114749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.M. Ali",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ali Mohamud Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk of developing and the President talked about this, development must be handled in a manner that every part of the country is taken into consideration. On that note, I want to congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for having started the stimulus package which has ensured that all parts of this country receive equal budget in terms of certain projects to be undertaken such as centres of excellence for education, hospitals and many others. I want to urge the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to go a step further and consider those marginalized areas for many years such as northern Kenya, so that they can be treated a little bit special. I want us to adopt the affirmative action so that development in that area is also accelerated so that we catch with the rest of the country. Maybe, after ten or 15 years when we would have reached the level of other cities, then we can revert back to the normal way of distributing resources equally. This is the same for the Ministry of Roads. We, as Members of Parliament, have passed laws to ensure that the Roads Maintenance Levy Funds are shared equally regardless of where a constituency is situated. I think we need to relook at that because in some parts of the country roads are very good whereas certain parts of the country do not even have roads, in the first place. I think it was an oversight on our part to have passed such a legislation which made sure that finances were equally distributed to all constituencies. It was a good process and initiation, but then we need to go back and look at it again and be a bit more practical, so that we get the resources fairly. Definitely, some areas need more of these resources than others."
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