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    "id": 1151425,
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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": "roads are not enough, I wish he would bring some of those roads to places where they would be appreciated. The driving motivation for some of these politicians is that the President coming from a certain community should have done more for that community. This should be criminalized. In fact, to that extent, I agree with Sen. Pareno. The only problem is how do you effect it? When people elect you, they expect that you will bring things back home. For example, the Arror and Kimwarer dams and the billions that were set aside. Magwagwa Dam that was supposed to unlock the agricultural potential of the Western Kenyan Region, Nandi, Luo Nyanza and Gusii land was sacrificed and money was taken to Arror and Kimwarer Dams. Many think it was because of ethnic and political reasons. Why are we bailing out coffee farmers and not cotton farmers? Is it ethnic or it is because of commerce? Why do we have interventions for tea farmers and not fish farmers? Is it ethnic or there is an economic basis? Is rural electrification being applied on ethnic and political consideration or on economic considerations? In the book Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu talks of extractive and inclusive systems. What we have built in our country is an extractive system, where when you are elected, be you a Senator, at the end of five years, you are asked how many children you have employed in the police service, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and Parliament, where you work."
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