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    "id": 1238397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1238397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "However, when you do not discuss the distance, then those counties will never get roads. It means that since the population is small, from one position to another, let those two or three people walk as others use tarmac road. I believed it then and I believe it more now that the only way we can unlock the potential of a country like ours and for regions like the north with enormous resources and potential in terms of development, infrastructure is the only answer. There is nothing that can answer the problem of the north, except infrastructure. If we construct good roads across the northern part of the country, all the population that we are bragging about that we are many in other parts of the country will move to the north and establish businesses there. You need to go to other parts of the world like Dubai, which is a desert for all intent and purposes. However, the people of that country and the leadership decided to develop the area to be what it is. If we decide to develop Isiolo County by making sure that the airport is working well and the roads are connected, all the people saying that we are many will move there and suddenly we will have greater development in that area. Sen. Chute, my job for now as the CS for Roads, Transport and Public Works is to make sure that I unlock the potential that exists in your county and others in the north, so that the rest of the country can benefit from the potential of those areas. That way, we will correct the history of the Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 that stated that high potential areas were only areas that were in particular regions and not in others. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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