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    "id": 1243823,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate this opportunity to also support this Motion. Turkana is a county not well known to most of us. It will be quite an experience for Senators to visit and interact with the community. Like most of those who have spoken before me have said, that is a county with a lot of resources. There is oil and volumes of water according to reports that have been widely publicized. It is a county where the Senate would want to visit and see what has been achieved, especially through the equalization fund that the county, alongside others, has enjoyed for over 10 years. We must see what Governors do with the cash that we give them through the Division of Revenue Bill. We should know, for example, why Turkana and other counties continue to suffer from the effects of drought, yet we do not have ways and mechanisms of harvesting water 11 years after. We should also make members of that community feel that Kenya in general recognizes them. We always hear that when you go to Turkana, the people there ask you how Kenya is because they believe that Turkana is not in Kenya. It is time we acted to show those brothers and sisters of ours that they indeed belong to Kenya. It is high time we acted to show these brothers and sisters of ours that they belong to us and we belong to them; and that they are Kenyans. What would be better than the Senate holding its sittings there and interacting with these people? This is a well-thought-out Motion that anybody who cares about nationhood and minds about statesmanship should encourage. Since time is gone and the Mover has to do his businesses, I beg to support this particular Motion with all my strength, so that we may be able to get the feel of things in the so-called marginalised counties."
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