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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "content": "Majengo, Kamukunji and Gorofani where people have gone for two-and-a-half years without electricity. There are also places in Embakasi South that do not have electricity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the spirit of this is not whether you are rich or poor; the spirit is services. It is pegged on services and availability of services. If there is a road that splits Karen, where on one side there is a slum and on the other there is golf course, when you go to the same place, you use the road which is a service. What we are speaking to is access to services on a basic level. When you go to Mandera County Referral Hospital, you will find that it serves three countries. There are people who come from Ethiopia and Somalia. All of them go there. That is a county that saw the first kilometre of tarmac after we introduced devolution in 2013. People have been driving on tarmacked roads from 1960s, but there are those people who saw tarmac in 2013. That is what this particular provision has come to address. I have challenged you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. When we were campaigning in 2022, we wanted cultural exchanges. We would get people from Homa Bay who had never been past Nakuru and have them go all the way to Kirinyaga. Those people wanted to see how a potato farm looks like and the environment or weather that makes their brother’s hair grow the way it does. People need to experience other people's lives. We would take people from Mt. Kenya who have never gone past Nakuru to Bungoma. Those people would believe, if told, that Bukusus in Bungoma eat people. They had to go to my grandmother's house to see that we eat what they eat as well. I am challenging you, Mr. Speaker, that you have to make sure that Senators, in this House, travel for them to forget their mother's food. They need to see how other people live. I will give you a list with the names of those Senators. After that, they will speak here knowing that they are speaking for the entire Republic. Mr. Speaker, Sir, people are living in squalor and that is why we are talking about marginalisation. My good friend here, the Senator for Narok County, has a project that he invited me to join him in. The project is about building basic structures for the Ilchamus in Baringo County. You all have to join in that effort because it is a very noble cause. Samburu, Narok, West Pokot, Wajir, Turkana and Tana River are places that everybody knows. There was a time when I was in Hola, Tana River, when it had flooded and I saw the condition of the people in that place. They were living on the road in makeshift paper houses yet somebody is here in Nairobi making noise and telling us about building affordable housing. The houses that Sen. Olekina is building for the Ilchamus people is more valuable to that community than the highrise buildings that we are doing here. With the highrise buildings, people are making money from tender and supply of materials, then they come and tell us they are doing affordable housing. The conditions in which our people find themselves and a leadership that appears to be blind to what the people really desire and deserve breaks my heart. I want us to revisit the original spirit of this Constitution, which was to raise the standards of these services to the level that we all enjoy or the majority of us enjoy The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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