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    "id": 1520215,
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    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "developed during that period and in the subsequent Government, largely due to the Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. This was designed to correct both the colonial period and the post- colonial period which came with a Sessional Paper that they would not invest any money in those places. In 1993, as a young Member of Parliament and a first-timer, I filed a Question asking how much money had been invested in development projects in the North Eastern Province over the last 30 years. At that time, we had three districts,namely, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera. The records are available, and the answer was Ksh178 million, which had been invested in almost a third of the country for 30 good years. That was amounting to a paltry sum of less than Ksh6 million per year per county. That gave us nothing, so I had to ask: ‘‘Where was that money spent’’? Largely, much of it was reallocated for security measures due to insecurity in some parts. That was one way for technocrats in the Government to take money from development and put it in their own pockets. It was easier to do this because nobody would hold them accountable for security. We had this kind of marginalisation and discrimination, starving our own people of the basic rights in their own country. Today, 39 counties are supposed to benefit from what was essentially designed for only 14 counties at a paltry sum of 0.5 per cent of the national budget. This will not equalise anything. You might as well do away with it and begin looking for a proper constitutional amendment, so that Kenyans can feel they belong to a country where everyone is equal. I do not have a single foot of tarmac road in my constituency. Not a foot, not from this table’s end to the other end. The headquarters of my constituency is Dadaab and there is not a single foot of tarmac road. This is true for most constituencies in those marginalised areas. The only one we have, which was done many years ago, is the tarmac road from here to Garissa. That road largely passes through other counties. However, constituencies like Mwingi West have many feeder roads, including the Nguu-Nguni Road. Hon. Nguna."
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