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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the BPS. The BPS gives us an opportunity as a country to lay our framework for development in this country. We, as a country, need to get our priorities right. There are sections of this country that have been neglected for quite a long period. If you look closely, this country developed along the railway line. All the way from Mombasa to where the railway line ended, development in this country focused there because goods were transported along that line. That is where the country’s development was focused. I was in Wajir and Turkana counties the other day. For the record, I have said that we need equality for this country to develop. For instance, the people of this Republic passed the Equalisation Fund in our Constitution to bring equality across the country. It was meant to bring historically marginalised areas to the same level with other areas in the country. That is why it offends some of us when a formula was introduced, claiming that the provision also meant to benefit areas that were not originally meant to. Let us consider certain things when we look at this BPS. Three countries can fit into a county like Turkana. Burundi, Djibouti and Rwanda combined cover 76,000 square kilometres, while Turkana County alone is 77,000 square kilometres. We must look at the development of Kenya as a whole, even as we look at this BPS. I thank the President who was recently in North Eastern Kenya. When I talked to my friend, Hon. Haro, I asked him about the percentage of electricity connectivity in North Eastern Kenya. He told me it is about 15 per cent or less. The average connectivity is about 25 per cent in Elgeyo/Marakwet County. Other counties in this country have 89 to 98 per cent electricity The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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