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    "content": "That is true! Given the time, I can prove that that is true. As we review our boundaries, those Kenyans who are over-populated must be considered. We should do whatever it takes to ensure that they are well represented. Equally, those of us from sparsely populated areas like North Horr and Ijara should also be effectively represented. As leaders from that region, we are categorical on this matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our people have been marginalized for too long and that is why today, when people from that part of the world leave for Nairobi, they say they are going to Kenya as if they live in Ethiopia or Somalia. They have very solid reasons for thinking so because there are some people from my constituency who have never seen a hospital; the best they have seen is a dispensary. We are all Kenyans. Why should people in Nairobi have over 50 hospitals while the people of North Horr lack even a single one up to date? Nobody in my constituency has seen a tarmacked road. What crime have we committed? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, up to today, there is no single public transport which the people of larger Marsabit, Moyale and North Horr can use. This is such marginalization and we inherited this policy in Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. It is time that those people were effectively represented. By doing that, we must have special facilities for those Kenyans. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we might be few but the people of North Horr have secured 40 kilometers stretch of a border starting from Isiolo, Moyale, all the way to Lake Turkana without a single military officer being taken to those areas. It is our people who have been manning those borders since independence up to today. Not a single military base is located either in North Horr or Marsabit, yet our people have secured"
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