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"speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute in support of this Motion. I also want to congratulate my brother, hon. Kaino, for coming up with this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, making every constituency to be a district will definitely improve security. For a long time, people from the pastoral communities have suffered cattle rustling which has turned into human rustling over the years. When you call the District Commissioner, he or she cannot reach the crime scene because of poor road network. However, if the District Commissioner was stationed in the district where insecurity is occurring, it would mean that he or she would be able to apprehend the culprits before loss of human life. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the District Roads Committee (DRC) and the District Roads Fund (DRF) which allocate roads funds in the constituencies. Now, you find that one constituency has got more roads and that is something practical in this country. One constituency may have more roads that are classified than others and so when the sharing out of this money is done, definitely they will start with the classified roads. What happens to the other constituencies without classified roads? They will get nothing! We talk of taking development closer to the people. Security is something that this Government said it will give to our people. They also said that they will develop our hospitals but it is amazing that people in vast regions still survive, especially given that they lack hospitals. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my colleague from Turkana talked about low population in some areas, especially the North Rift and the northern part of Kenya. Women suffer when they are referred to district hospitals which are not there. They cannot reach there because there are no roads. If there was a District Commissioner, definitely he or she would have a vehicle and lives would be saved because they would be able to take emergency cases to hospitals. We know that in district hospitals there definitely is an ambulance and a doctor. However, there are people in this country, and during this 21st Century, who are still relying on roots for medication. 2910 PARLIAMETARY DEBATES October 22, 2008 When women suffer during childbirth from too much bleeding and other complications, they die. People resort to telling women to confess sins which are non-existent. They lose their lives because there are no vehicles to take them to hospitals. The only way we can increase the population of the people from this Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) is by taking development, especially hospitals, closer to them. This can only happen when districts are created for them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, why is it that development takes place if a district is created for the people? It is because when we have civil servants posted to their districts, you will definitely find that such districts are located in areas which are endowed with resources and good road network. These officers want to keep in touch with the outside world and so they cannot leave their offices and go to those areas that are inaccessible and yet those areas are part of the district or constituency. So, they sit in their offices and wait for people to walk 200 or 500 kilometres to take information to them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the current recruitment of teachers, you will find that if two or three constituencies share one district, the recruitment of teachers is district-based. If one constituency is on the leeway side of the mountain, it is disadvantaged. Students from my constituency, which is on the leeway side of Cherangany Hills, where they are perpetually chased from school because of school fees, are disadvantaged because when the results come out, though they graduate in the same year, they will not be the same. When they tie in marks, they will look at how they performed in particular subjects and you will find that those from poor constituencies are always locked out of employment because of their marks. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the police and military recruitment---"
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