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    "id": 1202268,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker every Kenyan must feel that he is part of this Government. The President must navigate as much as he can to make us all feel like Kenyans. I am also aware about a naked truth that very many people would not like to talk about. We have a Kenya of 43 tribes which has only had Presidents from two regions of this country. I want to now address the President that there is some volcano brewing in this country that we want him to come and stop or else it will erupt. I come from a region that has been neglected in terms of Government projects and resource distribution. I yearn for a day a Samburu will have a chance to be the President of this country. I yearn for a day a Kamba, Luhya, Luo or Turkana can get a chance to be the President of this country. On the day that such a thing happens we can start talking. I know very many people will be uncomfortable with that but that is the reality of the matter. We want a clear and fair distribution of resources. The region I come from is marginalized and we have very many projects that have been started but have stalled. I have in mind the Musikoma-Mungasti Road Project, which has been going on for 10 years. A road project which hardly costs Kshs350 million has been going on for 10 years without being completed. The Mungatsi-Kimaeti-Lwakhakha Road is a nightmare and yet it is supposed to offload heavy traffic from the northern corridor that feeds this country. The Misikhu-Brigadier Road has taken almost 10 years to complete. A road from Dorofu that links Kakamega County and Bungoma County, the Dorofu-Musikoma Road, has also taken years without completion. On the other hand, we have seen new roads coming up, dual carriages from Nairobi to Nyeri which started the other day and are almost being completed. We have seen a road in the outskirts of Nairobi, the bypass, the dual carriageway which started the other day is now getting into completion."
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