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    "id": 1520350,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520350/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " I am impressed with the last bit of the contribution from the Member for Borabu. He said, and I have said this before, if you do not develop those northern areas, every time there is a vagary of weather and a cycle of drought, 200,000 pastoralists lose their livelihoods. When they lose their livelihoods, they do not have factories, tea or coffee farms there. There is nothing to keep them in the region. So, what do they do? They come to the centers here. That is why you see them within the urban settings, whether it is in Kisumu or Migori. If you ask our good friend, Hon. Junet, how they ended up in Migori, he will tell you that his father lost his livestock and they went to look for a livelihood there, some 60 or 70 years back. As he puts it, if we are going to develop those areas, then not only will we stop many people migrating to other urban centers, but we will also have Kenyans living there, taking advantage of that expansive land, and becoming productive in a way that can turn those areas into a breadbasket. That was the very idea of opening up the place with only four core functions: roads, electricity, water and health. These were national functions, outside the county. Everybody knows that counties have their roles to try and equalise, but of course, these were national functions. Unless you put in heavy Government investments into that, you will not bring that area up to par with the rest of the country. Thank you very much. It addresses some of that urban migration from one part of the country to the other, where people are seeking livelihoods."
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