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    "id": 1440134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Farah",
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    "content": "We should increase the amount of allocation from 0.5 to 100 per cent so that everyone can benefit. Alternatively, we can reduce the counties listed in the Appropriations Bill so that the marginalised areas can be at par with the rest of Kenya. I do not have a single tarmacked road, a Level 4 Hospital or tap water anywhere in my constituency. I am sure each household has running tap water in the other constituencies. The difference is as clear as broad daylight. We should not be talking about something that we do not know. People should go to these constituencies, appreciate the challenges and talk from an informed position. There was deliberate attempt from 1963 to date, from particular individuals to marginalise a specific area, further. There is also deliberate attempt by those who hold high offices in this country to remove some counties from the map of Kenya. I am sorry to say so but from the look of things, it might happen sooner or later. There was a debate on the one man, one shilling, one vote; equalisation and other things that target specific areas yet people cannot even see small amounts of money trickling down to those areas. When we are in the Committee, and my brother, Hon. Okelo, is a witness that whenever we appropriate money, not a single coin is allocated to those areas. Every day we fight so that we allocate some percentage to those areas. I beg the Members of this House to understand the dynamics, problems and challenges that some constituencies are facing so that we do not politicise the lives of Kenyans because we are here to represent them. All of us are here to represent the people of Kenya. If, for example, today there is a Miraa farm that is allocated to miraa farmers and I who is not a miraa farmer from Northern Kenya says I also want to be allocated a miraa farm, will that be appropriate? It will not be. We should differentiate things. There are coffee and tea farmers who are given a lot of money whereas the livestock farmers are left in the middle with no appropriation. I want to thank the Committee. Recently in the budget estimate proposals, they allocated Ksh1 billion for restocking. I want to appreciate and thank the Chairman and the Committee Members for doing a great job for that programme. It hurts me – as a Member who represents the people from Northern Kenya – when I see some Members mocking us by telling us to our faces that we are getting more funds than our share. That is unfortunate. I wish the Speaker could constitute a committee to research and verify the budget allocations so that we see how much goes to each and every county and constituency, so that we share equally. Thank you."
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