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    "id": 135181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "The intention of this Motion is to acknowledge the Government efforts in trying to focus on development of northern Kenya and other Arid Lands by the fact that the Government established a Ministry. We do not want that Ministry to be just a political gimmick. We want to it to translate into real activities for the people who live in this part of the country which is about 80 per cent of the Kenya’s land mass. This Ministry, must, therefore, be strengthened. It should not be taken as a co-ordinating Ministry. It must be taken as a Ministry for development of northern Kenyan and Other Arid Lands. When you look at the word “development” the assumption is to construct this region afresh. There were policies of marginalization which were pursued in this country by the colonial Government and then implemented to the letter by the subsequent Government. This has contributed to this part of the country going down the drain economically. As Members have said, we require human resource development and development of infrastructure in this region. Therefore, the obsession with the 50 kilometre railway line established by the colonial Government must stop with the establishment of this Ministry."
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