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    "id": 114799,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114799/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": "People say yes today for this clause and no tomorrow for the same clause and you wonder, what leadership is that? Do you intend or is it that you do not know what is good for this country given its ethnic diversity and leadership up to now? We still have a fight between those who want to control from the centre so that they may benefit a few instead of deploying all resources, human and material, for the benefit of the whole country. Why should that continue yet we know what needs to be done as a country and we fail to do it? Let me touch on regional inequalities. We know very well that in northern Kenya, North Eastern and some of the semi arid areas, what we need is raw water, so that their animals can graze. What we need is development of some oasis where their children can have equal education with the rest. We established a Ministry responsible for the northern Kenya and arid areas and it has no resources and yet, two years have gone by. The Maasais are still struggling the way they have been struggling before. Why that double speak? Why that lip service? Why is it that good plans are there? As an economist, I can say there is no better plan than Vision 2030. But there is a big gap between what we plan and what we implement. As soon as the plan is approved, implementation goes totally a different route. We still allocate inadequate resources for agriculture. In my constituency, the biggest problem is that too many of my constituents cannot pay their medical bills. I have too many people who cannot pay fees both for secondary school and colleges, leave alone university. How shall we bridge the gap? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the youth who are unemployed are increasing. As Mungiki revolts, the leaders do not hear the bells ringing that if you do not do it, there is nothing tribal in it. Kenyans need help and the only way they will be helped is how you arrange to put them to work. Put them to work in agriculture and services. Deploy the resources in the most economical manner. Leave them to think and act together because that is what the Bible teaches. When times are difficult, put your heads together and I will give you the inspiration. I think that is the advice Jesus gave. Why do we not follow such a simple teaching? Instead, we continue to misinterpret a verse in the bible which says that those who have shall be given and those who do not have, even the little that they have will be taken away. It is interpreted totally out of context. It was never meant that the rich in Kenya should continue to be richer and the poor should be exploited to continue being poorer. You will soon not enjoy your wealth in this Republic if we allow the inequalities to continue striking as it is. So, we should take seriously the uprising among the Mungiki . We should take seriously the loitering in Nairobi streets. You can see our people are walking in the streets and yet they are not going anywhere. Despite this, we are allowing the city to get bigger and bigger to the extent that life in the city is getting harder and harder for these youth to manage. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we started the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development but not much progress has been made. We have to be very drastic if we are going to solve some of the problems in this country. We should be thinking of another twin city out of Nairobi, some three million people somewhere between Machakos, Konza, Kajiado and Athi River, totally different and move all the Government Ministries except the Office of the President over to the bush and build new estates there with residential facilities and proper sanitation next to the digital village which is coming up there. Otherwise, life is becoming impossible in the city."
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