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    "id": 1456716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kapenguria, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chumel",
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    "content": "want will be realised through the kind of young men we have here. He is not pushing his Members left and right. He always listens. That is why some of us are praying for him in the future. The current President started like that and we supported him. Even the former Prime Minister started here and fought for some of us who had been ignored. Especially areas in ASALs, which were ignored from 1965 by Sessional Paper No. 10. It is only the Constitution of 2010, where Raila led campaigns, which produced the Equalisation Fund. It brought equity to people like me. Even the areas I come from, cattle rustling is not a culture the way people say. It is the lack of resources. You have to go to neighbours when your children are hungry and crying the whole night. But because the neighbour cannot give you easily, you will take it and give food to those children. Mine will be happy when the neighbour’s cry. My neighbour will also come to me when his children cry. I also thank the late President Mwai Kibaki. That is where we started with this. He gave us the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). I was there in the 8th and 9th Parliaments. Kibaki gave us the CDF during the 9th Parliament. We started with only Ksh6 million. Compared with whatever remained at the national level, the Ksh6 million you took down there did wonderful things on the ground. That is why even the average we get for the NG-CDF is doing wonders compared to county and national governments. The little NG-CDF here gets something done and people appreciate. I learnt under a tree. The wind carried our blackboard and books away all the time. Now we have classes. Our children are not learning under a tree because of resources through the NG- CDF and the Equalisation Fund. There was a kind of a mix up. We were wondering why the Constitution talks of 14 counties benefiting from the Equalisation Fund for 20 years only. Now we have 34 counties. I do not know where the others came from. However, we say yes, let us go together because we are Kenyans. Maybe, some areas were also left out. We thought it was only us on the other side. That is why we only appreciate. I was a teacher and a unionist. We have gone around. We saw areas where teachers were doing well. We had to come and request for hardship allowances. There are poor areas even in Central Kenya that people think are different and more developed than other areas. We will do well if we go with this spirit of coming together to discuss. We should also get leaders who have hearts like Raila. He went through hell even to pass the Constitution. It was not a joke. Later, people like the late President Mwai Kibaki came in. I remember the leaders of West Pokot brought him to our area. We went to Amakuriat Secondary School in a place called Alale. When we reached there, the late President Kibaki was almost crying. He asked us why we had taken him there because he saw the situation in that area. People were still wearing the hides and skins as clothes. He compared the place to where he came from and did not believe. However, as a leader, he kept quiet until we finished the visit and went all the way to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Later, he asked his staff to invite the leaders from West Pokot to State House. He ordered a bus for Amakuriat Secondary School. Where can we get such leaders? That is my prayer. We now have the Government of National Unity. We need to minimise the noise that we have. I remember in the year 2008, we had the same kind of Government and I was a beneficiary. That was during the Government of the late President Kibaki. He appointed me to the Ministry of Home Affairs. We worked even though we were members of KANU, the Opposition. That is the same way we have our friends in Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party in Government today. We used to have the Opposition and the Government. Now we have Majority and Minority Parties. However, we are all Kenyans. Recently, one of my constituents asked me how we could The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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