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    "id": 1493743,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Under the leadership of the PPG, this is a very important issue. We will not allow us to go to the next decade under this marginalisation. I am in receipt of a document. It is not only the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. In fact, irrigation and livestock are not defined. If you go to the Bretton Woods institutions, you will realise that all the funds that are meant - and I want Hon. Adow to hear this - for the disadvantaged regions are diverted by the technocrats. It is not the mistake of the Members of Parliament, but of the technocrats in the ministries. Hon. Adow should bring a Motion so that we can censure the person who is in charge of this particular phenomenon. Bring a Motion or a question, so that the Cabinet Secretary can be taken to task. We also need to amplify our role. I feel so sad today. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are around today. Let me repeat this, and it will be my final comment. Under the current constitutional infrastructure, there were four contending groups. You fit in one of them. One group wanted a pure parliamentary system, and you know the component. Another group wanted a pure presidential system. Another group wanted devolution. Finally, those who are disadvantaged said they wanted equalisation and devolution. Those two are not working today. We need to go back to the drawing board and address our challenges within the Constitution so that we shall never be at the mercy of a particular individual again. We will not claim to be marginalised again and cry for the mercy of individuals who are not better than us. I resist. That is not the approach. Let us deal with the technocrats who want to use cocoon approaches to further marginalise us. They should remember that in this modern-day Kenya, my rights will not be at the mercy of any individual. The rights of my constituents should not be at the whims of any individual. It should be a God- given right. It should be constitutionally placed, driven and centered right. That is why the framers of the Constitution were very generous. I plead with you, my patron here and other colleagues that we can have a crisis meeting to address this issue and dissect the budget? The budget phenomenon is being used to further marginalise regions. Every Kenyan has the right to get a portion of the national cake. It is not a favour or privilege. It is not something that we should go to offices to demand for it. Bring that report or question to the Floor of the House and, certainly, we will take those individuals to task. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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