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    "id": 1571389,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " No, he was at the university when I was a Member of Parliament. Of course, everybody knows Hon. Adan is an avid debater. He also did history at the university and knows all these things. I am glad that we are thinking more or less along the same lines. We have a country today, and we cannot keep on lamenting the past. The reason we have all these accidents is that there is congestion. The elite in here would rather buy a piece of land in the same high-potential area where the infrastructure is good than buy in far-flung places like Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit and the rest of it. Our psyche as Africans, and as Kenyans, after Independence is either you are going to Mombasa, because that is where the port and beaches are and that is where the affluent people are putting up resources and investing in land, or you are going on the one that goes to Uganda, or taking this one that goes to Nanyuki. That is why the rest of the country is not being developed. Somebody like me, I will tell you, to look at these things and look at where so-and-so's properties are. You will be surprised. Many people from my area are putting up farms in here, the Rift Valley, Mombasa, Lamu and all those places, because those are the only areas they can easily access. Then there is congestion. There are going to be what you call accidents. The same happens when you move from Mombasa by truck. If a truck, a 40-foot container, cannot reach Entebbe, or rather Kampala, in time, it is a problem. When we open up this country, we put up Inland Container Depots (ICDs). They are on the way now, like in Naivasha. We will have ICD in Garissa, Isiolo, and Marakwet, and the country is going to develop. The way to do that is to have this infrastructure perfectly in sync so that we can de-congest Nairobi. Everybody has come to Nairobi. People are wondering why 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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