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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Omingo",
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        "legal_name": "James Omingo Magara",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I withdraw. But I am not addressing anybody. I am only trying to draw a parallel and giving an example of what primitivity is. But it is not within the House but in another context. I am only trying to explain how bad it is. But from now on, I will not use the word \"primitivity\". But that is how, unfortunately, we have become. Truly, at the level of the international fora, we have no stake. We cannot negotiate properly because our ground is financially shaky. As I move to conclude, let me comment on the resolution about water distribution. Water is life. I remember the Nile Treaty that was signed with the Egyptian Government. I am glad to note that there are concerns about re-negotiating that treaty, so that we can also use that water. That way, we will not buy oranges from Ethiopia. We still have plenty of water resources that are going to waste. If we do not manage our resources properly, they will be a source of conflict. That is why our great brothers lost their lives when they went to the North Eastern Province in search of lasting peace by trying to address the issue of insecurity and conflict. That is also why we are clamouring for a new constitutional order that is going to give this country equity and fairness in distribution of resources beyond water. We are saying that if we did not have that particular order, nepotism, \"special\" boy, \"blue-eyed\" boy and special favourable regions, we will continuously get fair resource allocation. I am surprised today, and I want it to be put on record that even as we have developed so far, today, some regions are being denied resources distribution and allocation because they are perceived to be politically incorrect. On this matter, I have a true living example. I had a road to be constructed in South Mugirango; Kamagambo-Nyansembe-Etago Road. That money, Kshs84 million, has been re-allocated to another politically correct area. That is how unfair we have become. We are rolling backwards to be given resources depending on whether you sing the highest tune of a political mass. That is why we are saying that we require a proper constitutional dispensation that devolves resources to the grassroots where Kenyans benefit. I am telling you this because it actually opens up wounds that are cancerous. People can actually be subjected to pain because of their political position or perceived political position. We must stand to be counted, lest history will judge us very harshly. I am saying this with an open heart; that, it is high time that we stopped thinking in the past and thought into the future. The unfortunate thing is that most of us live in the past. We do not live for tomorrow. That is why this Government has refused to shake off the KANU regime. They keep referring to the KANU regime every other time. We must think in the future. Finally, notice is hereby given that if we do not appreciate each other in this country, we are brewing trouble; we are brewing further insecurity. This Government knows well that we are actually becoming worse than we were when this Government took over power. We are more tribalistic than we were. We are more selfish in terms of taking \"my child, my wife, my land, my school and my resources\", as opposed to our resources that should be the guiding principle for this nation! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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