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    "id": 1440140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Umulkher Harun",
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    "content": "Currently, I am not able to access my own constituency because I need to get a chopper. I do not have money to get a chopper. I am only paid enough to fuel my car in order to visit my home. When the floods come, we do not get budgets for dams. If this money is released and utilised appropriately, we will get dams so that the issue of floods in my region does not recur. The farmers keep investing every rainfall season. By the time the drought comes, the floods have washed away our resources. We have livestock. Money meant for livestock is never seen in my region. Such debates should not be politicised. This should be about equality. You cannot govern a country that is poor or does not receive equal share of resources. It is very unfair for the debate to go beyond this. The focus should be on how to empower existing marginalised communities. Some Members from regions which have hospitals per two kilometres have told us they are marginalised. We cannot stomach such debate because it is unreasonable. I use a boat every time it floods, while somebody else drives. This conversation must take a different angle. We need to audit what is released and how the funds are allocated. So, we can get an equal share. For example, Members from Central Kenya or other regions that have always enjoyed a monopoly of getting national resources are telling us they are marginalised yet in my region we need to build schools. The NG-CDF is building high schools and nursery schools. There is a demand for more schools because of population increase. I come from a family with over 20 people and my mother has 30 sisters and uncles. Resources need to be distributed equally. The population in ASAL areas is increasing because men have more than four wives. So, there is a high demand for nursery schools. Some places are closing their nursery schools because they have no children to attend. So, they should not get these resources. We have to fight for what is ours and have a conversation that brings unity. One man, one-shilling is a distraction because it brings hatred and a lot of negativities. If it is brought, we will say one-shilling, one-kilometre. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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