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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to appreciate this Adjournment Motion. Back in the days before we promulgated the current Constitution, we thought that it was lack of resources in those areas that created insecurity. We have been proven wrong because the Government has allocated about Ksh12 billion to Turkana County since devolution came into being. That means that the Government needs to think beyond resources. We need to think about whether it is possible to support those counties. As much as they have resources, the Government must create very serious infrastructure that can turn them around. There should not be just one road that goes up to the border. The Government should construct feeder roads that can open up the area and facilitate the growth of the local economy through transportation of products to places such as Kapenguria and Kitale. We need to ask other security agencies, like the Kenya Defence Forces, for help. We should not just rely on the police. We should have military barracks in that area, which could also help grow the economy. Why can we not have barracks there that will grow the economy and create wealth for them? They will build schools, introduce agriculture and bring water and resources that are making people fight every day. They fight because of lack of water and pasture. All these things will grow. We need to re-think how we can sit down with Pokot, Turkana and any other community in the belt to see what the real issue is. The leaders here should also help us. If you are a leader, you definitely understand the problem. They should be properly placed in that programme without political bias. They must be a multi-agency that works together for the benefit of the people of the North. Turkana has the only inland lake, which is the best in the world that astonishes people, but we are still talking about all these things. We should ask ourselves, is it education that we are lacking?"
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