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    "id": 1571390,
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    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "governors and rich people from the North Eastern provinces are not investing in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa but you would understand because there are no roads. For this person to go and visit his investments out there, he will take a week to go to Mandera or Wajir or fly, because there are no tarmac roads. If you go to my constituency right now, you will not see five metres of tarmac. Even in Emurua Dikirr. Many constituencies in the north share the same thing. Children only hear about tarmac, and look at it in the pictures, but they have never seen it. They have to come to Garissa to see what tarmac looks like. This Motion must be translated into a serious policy paper. We are not just talking about what my dear sister said about classes A, B and C. No. We are talking about all the roads. If there are sufficient roads right now that go to all the corners of the North Eastern Province, I can assure you, the north is going to become the breadbasket of this country. We can also do the same in parts of the Rift Valley. Places like Pokot, Samburu, Turkana and Rendille and our Cushitic brothers in Marsabit, Turbi, and all the deserts. Those places can become the centre for tourist attractions. If Nevada can be what it is right now, these are not exceptional. If you can go to San Diego, they do a lot of work right in the centre of the desert. It is one of the biggest economies you have in the USA. I do not know whether it is in California or Nevada. We need to open up the country. Once it opens up, industries will be set up in those places as an incentive. You incentivise industrialists who are going to come and invest in this country by telling them that if they go to far-flung areas, they get a tax haven; they get a tax holiday. That is the way we are going to de-congest Nairobi and address all this joblessness. We keep talking about young men and women who cannot find jobs and who have degrees. Imagine if the factories, industries, airports and the roads are there. You could move from one part of the country to the other in a matter of hours. Hon. Temporary Speaker, can you allow me to have just two minutes? Two minutes."
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