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    "id": 1261844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. This Bill is very timely. First, we need a provision to enable us do a forensic audit of all the money that has been borrowed from the day this country became independent up to today. That is to find out how much has seriously gone to infrastructure programmes in the country or ended up in the pockets of people. Unless there are consequences for people who steal from this country, whether it is through foreign debts or local resources, this thing is always going to be there. The other thing I want to tell you is that most of it was borrowed. We need this forensic audit on both projects and finances for us to know where every coin went. The second thing is that much of the debt has been used for infrastructure development in Kenya. Ostensibly, that is the case. We have not had that much infrastructural development in the North. Therefore, we need a certain exemption for us to get, at least, a road from Garissa all the way to Mandera, Liboi, Hulugho and all those places. That is one area that I think we need an exemption. If we have to borrow for infrastructure, we will have to borrow for those. It is my very humble opinion that busybodies used ‘projects’ to borrow out there. Infrastructural projects that have not gone very well in the past. Whatever has to come for infrastructural projects now should be given to areas that are marginalised historically, now that we are sharing the Equalisation Fund with everybody else, including areas that benefitted through Sessional Paper 10 of 1965. There has to be a certain equity, equality and fairness, in the manner we use some of those debts. Thank you."
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