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    "id": 206375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 215,
        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "I am happy that as I speak, the Assistant Minister in that Ministry has walked in from the gym, and I welcome him. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we do not want statements of sympathy or platitudes or high- sounding phrases, which are merely meant to be vote-catching, to be used when everybody goes to visit people in ASAL areas. We want people to visit the ASAL areas with definite programmes. It is not enough to come and say: \"We have something in the Printed Estimates. We will drill boreholes\". We need real programmes. It is not all those areas that will require boreholes. Therefore, if we do not have something which is well-planned, we will end up with all manner of things being littered and scattered all over. It is, indeed, not surprising that even when it comes to addressing issues to do with flooding, the kind of pathetic situations we have witnessed for decades afflicting Budalang'i area, again, because there has not been anything that has been well-planned, today there will be an intervention because Mr. Wanjala has made noise or cried out there; they will rush there with some money. However, because there has not been something that has been planned, within one or two or three years, you find Mr. Wanjala, again, crying out. We need proper interventions, and not things that are done because it is important to entice Mr. Wanjala to vote in a particular way. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not enough that interventions are implemented in a manner that is only meant to ensure a particular voting pattern in those areas. I know that I am speaking for several people who come from the ASAL areas. Since we have identified the ASAL districts in this country, what this Motion is calling upon us to do, as a House and as a country, is: Having identified the ASAL districts, let us pick out the peculiar circumstances and needs of each one of them. There are those districts whose inhabitants are nomadic in nature, and others whose inhabitants are not necessarily nomadic, like myself. I am not nomadic myself, both socially and politically. We do not move from one place to another. Therefore, what I am saying is that the peculiar needs of each of those districts need to be identified, so that planning is done properly according to the special needs of the residents of particular districts. With those very few remarks, I beg to support. August 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3531"
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