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    "id": 1151423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "gentleman from my county. Do you know what my people are telling me? Senator, go and talk to the PS, he comes from your county; let him divert funds to Homa Bay County. They do not know that it is criminal. The whole notion of taking advantage of a tribesman to bring development to your region is itself impunity. Last week, I was with a group of teachers reflecting on the changing face of academic results in the country. We never used to hear of St. Patricks’, Iten. When I was in high school, we never met Kapsabet Boys in anything because I was in a national school. We thought they were probably in the volleyball league because we were in the rugby league. Today, Kapsabet is a school that every parent wants to take their children to. If you look at the critical success factors, it is because these schools have benefited – I do not want to say unduly – from proper infrastructure funding. The more children they take, the more they are able to absorb. Whereas in other parts of the country, the old schools like Maseno, Shimo la Tewa, St. Mary’s Yala, have remained in static position. Are water projects across this country applied properly or with an ethnic bias? The people of central region are castigating their President for not doing enough to develop the region. The President in his defence has said he has invested billions of shillings in doing the Mau Mau roads. Last week, I was in Suba South Constituency in a very prosperous, bustling fishing village called Nyandiwa. There is no road that links from Mbita all the way to Sori. A vast area and important economically for fishing and for tourism has been left without a road since Independence. When I hear politicians from a certain region castigating the President and saying"
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