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    "id": 250699,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/250699/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to support the CDF Report. This is a very important debate because it is being done for the first time I would say and it is not a wonder for 100 years, that the marginalised areas, the drought-afflicted areas, the people who are left behind, including by the colonialists, have felt that the resources have been fairly and equitably distributed. It is true that these areas until CDF came, had been forgotten and marginalised. They have been areas which had been peripheral but for the first time CDF has come and reached every corner of this country. It has not discriminated against anybody like normally it is done in the main Budget and this little money to the tune of 2.5 per cent to the country has done wonders. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in some of our areas it has helped us build classrooms which we did not have since pupils were studying under trees. Now we have got an opportunity to build at least some classrooms for these pupils. We have extended a little bit of health work. There were areas that had no dispensary at all; where citizens would walk up to 50 kilometres to reach a health care centre. This distance has now been reduced through building of dispensaries near their homes. We have also got this question of water in some of these areas. The dams have been built. The boreholes have been sunk even with that little money. It is wonderful that this distribution of resources has helped us people, who not only consider but can verify that we have been forgotten and thoroughly marginalised. Mr. Speaker, Sir, look at what we have been seeing in north eastern Kenya and not only north eastern Kenya but in all the drought-stricken areas. In fact, this is the first time that the deaths of our people have been recorded. Women and children died of famine. It is because we have not"
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