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    "id": 1520388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": "Let us take a place like Tharaka-Nithi which is not included in these counties which are referred to as marginalised. You will find that one section of Tharaka-Nithi County or a section of Meru County is in a favourable geographical location in all aspects. But when you go to another section of the county, you find that it is equivalent to Tana River, Narok, Kilifi or any other place. Since my constituency neighbours that area, a whole division like the one referred to as Kiagu, is so marginalised to an extent that a child is born, goes to a school with no teachers because no teacher would like to go to a place which does not attract hardship allowance. The child grows without seeing electricity or water unless he travels for 20 kilometres to fetch water and that child will only manage to see electricity when he goes to Form One and definitely, that will be very far from that area. You find that yes, it is Meru County and the people who are living in that area are Merus, but within that community, there is a section which is purely marginalised. So, I am praying that when it comes to the people that will establish the areas referred to as marginalised, they should not just strictly stick to the counties which are mentioned here. They should go beyond what is described here and look at those areas which are really marginalised. As you may get an opportunity to fly over the northern part of Meru which neighbours Samburu, Isiolo, Garissa and the rest, because we neighbour Garissa in one way or the other and Isiolo, you find that there are places which have never seen a road of any nature. Not a tarmac or a murram road or any kind of development at all, but there are structures there and the people living there are pastoralists who move from one place to another, and it is not included here among the communities which require this kind of Equalisation Fund."
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