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    "id": 1493750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1493750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Jackson Kosgei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The issue of ASALs and marginalisation has been a theme since Independence. It is about time we revisit the definition of the terms we have used over time. After 60 years of Independence in this country, and even through our constitutional guidance as established by Article 204 of our Constitution where the Equalisation Fund is domiciled, it is about time we think ASALs could be richer than all the other parts of the country. They have 88 per cent of the land mass. We have natural resources which need to be exploited for the interest of our people. In fact, we have minerals. We need to improve from 0.5 per cent for sinking boreholes and doing those mitigating projects into real survey of our natural resources that are lying underneath. In fact, marginalised areas and ASALs have wealth which can run the economy of this country for more than 100 years to come. We have oil and minerals. Some people have gone into those areas for speculation, and bought land and privatised it. That is because they know that it is quite rich. We would like to redirect those resources of 0.5 per cent and enhance and use them in discovering how to help our people in the ASAL areas. Let us advance this argument better and make it useful for our people. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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