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    "id": 305617,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/305617/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, vitendawili will come later. I beg to reply. I have made four official trips as Prime Minister to Turkana County. Before then, I had travelled extensively within Turkana County in my private capacity as well as a Minister of the Government of Kenya, one, as the Minister for Energy and later on as the Minister for Roads. Let me also announce here that I will be visiting Turkana County for three days from 21st August that is from Tuesday, to launch the Integrated Tukana Basin Irrigation Project at Todonyang. I will also be visiting Lokitaung, Lokichoggio, Kakuma, Lodwar, Loima, Lokichar and Lokori during that trip. As much as I find it intriguing that there is an expectation that my official trip to Turkana County should give birth to development projects, I appreciate the history of our politics where the visits by the Head of State to various parts of the country in the past were the forum at which local leaders pleaded for development projects and invoked the generosity of the Head of State to authorize development projects. It was then said, in that era; it was the era of “ siasa mbaya maisha mbaya .” Fortunately, our country has moved on to embrace the principle of equitable development across all regions---"
}