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    "id": 1520222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "I have been given three minutes. Most of you do not know when the late Tom Mboya took students to the famous airlift in the United States. The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga took many students to Eastern Europe. I would say the majority of them were from Luo, Nyanza and the Western provinces. Those days, they were called the Kavirondo. I do not know what Kavirondo meant, but it was the western side. Since they were not in favour with the Government, when someone came back with a PhD, they were relegated to a master's degree. If someone came back with a master's degree, they were relegated to a bachelor's degree. Those who came back from Hungary, Romania and other countries like Russia or Ukraine, which were part of Russia at that time, were relegated to a diploma. This country has seen serious apartheid in its own history. The Equalisation Fund was one way of addressing the awful things we did to ourselves in the short period since we gained Independence. Also, the awful things that the white men did to us in the differentials. I understand that the white men came to extract the economy from here and rob us. They came to enslave us and use our forced labour to develop their own economies back home. But in an independent African country, after so much suffering, how can you come to me now with an Equalisation Fund, which is just equalisation to the extent of the title? By the way, it equalises nothing. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! We need serious and proper equalisation. This must be amended so as to indicate who the beneficiaries are in the interim. Not just leave it to the Commission on Revenue Allocation to decide who benefits today and who benefits tomorrow. We should look at the resources that were allocated before, those areas that were starved of allocation and compare what each constituency received. We need to bring certain areas up so that they can have the same level of development. The idea was to heal the country; it was some form of truth, justice, and reconciliation. We are trying to reconcile our country and not drive us apart again, which is exactly what is happening now. Transitional justice was what we expected to achieve. We wanted all of us to forget and say, ‘‘Look, my country might have done some awful things to me, but today, I am benefiting”. I am coming up to speed, and you see tarmac roads all over north eastern and the feeder roads in Turkana, Marsabit, Moyale, Kilifi and other areas that have been starved. Pokot? The Pokots were called Suk. Has anybody heard of the word Suk?"
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