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    "id": 1341939,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "Parliament, very few indeed, who has been in Parliament from way back in 1993. In 1993, I asked a question in Parliament on how much development money had been spent on North Eastern Province in all sectors for thirty years. The answer I got was that it was Ksh178 million. For three districts of Wajir, Garissa and Mandera, for 30 years, the Government spent less than Ksh6 million per year on them in development matters. When we got Independence, the Government of the day devised what they called the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, which was the intensification of development resources in high-potential areas. In other words, our first Prime Minister and President, Jomo Kenyatta, did not want money to go to any of those rural arid and semi-arid areas. He wanted all that development to be concentrated in areas where his community lived and a few other white highlands. And because of that, this country has never been at ease with itself in terms of politics. We had all sorts of movements. We had the multiparty or what we called agitation at that time, which cost Kenyans many lives. It was all because we were trying to look for an equitable and equal opportunity way in which resources were going to be distributed to the four corners of this country. Today, the only infrastructures we have in our constituencies are those initiated through the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). The only other infrastructures we have are roads built by KeRRA in conjunction with the National Assembly. You cannot take that away again. I support this Report of the Committee. If anything, we want them to take on bigger roles. We do not have a single feeder road in the whole of North Eastern Province, which is tarmacked. Not a single tarmac."
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