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    "id": 1243745,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lemaletian",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we know that there has been a lot of conflict between Samburu and Turkana counties. Nonetheless, that will not make me fail to recognize that Turkana County, being my neighbour county, is one of the most outstanding tourist destinations. Most importantly, there have been about three discoveries of evolution. These discoveries have even been filmed in several films like the discovery of ParanthropusBoisei in 1969; in 1995, there was a discovery of Australopithecus Anamensis and paleoanthropological discoveries dating up to 1.9 million years. These are things that we need to highlight as a country because they attract people to our counties given that there is not much that we can offer right now because our current national Government is playing a deaf ear on the north despite the north being very rich and having vast land for activities like agriculture. This time when we are discussing about the poor economic state of our country, lack of food and food reserves. It is very shameful. As we said, Turkana, Samburu and Marsabit counties have the potential to grow crops because these are semi-arid and not arid areas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Turkana County borders three countries; that is Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Given that this is a county that is bordering three different nations, then there is a lot of potential in opening up the county for cross-border trading and ensuring that there is peace for proper relations to be accomplished among these countries. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have also heard that there was discovery of underground water in Turkana, but unfortunately, that water is seven times more saline than the recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO). I believe the recommendation was that it would cost about Kshs50 million per month to get this water desalinated. Why would we not spend Kshs50 million as a country on electricity if at all we are already raising and taxing everything, including the same electricity cost, which has blown out of imagination? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we know Lake Turkana, the majestic lake of the north, which was formally called Lake Rudolf or the Jade Sea has so many national parks around it. We have the Sibiloi National Park. I know many of you might not have known that it is in Turkana. We also have the South Island National Park and the Central Island in Turkana. This is a county with three national parks. How comes we are not promoting it for tourism, to shift focus from being too much in the coast to at least up north? I believe people, like me who can barely swim, can swim and float in that lake because it is a salty lake. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also have some unique species of animals in Lake Turkana which my colleagues do not know. Lake Turkana is a breeding ground for the migrant waterfall. We also have several species of snakes in Koobi Fora. It is also a breeding ground for the Nile crocodiles. The Nile crocodile breeds in Lake Turkana and not the Nile River. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be very proud to take part in these plenary sessions in Turkana. I would also like to request that these plenary sessions be held in counties that are marginalized, are far away from the city are counties that consider themselves as “ sisisio Kenya.” We can pick a few counties in the coast and several others in the north."
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