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"content": "that at Emuhaya the population is 2,000 people per square kilometre; within ten years, these people will be about 6,000 per square kilometre. We will be marginalized further because all the people who are now in high potential areas will be reduced to sheer poverty. You find the Kisii with land issues because we do not have an education system that can teach this population to forget about land and then move to the cities and do other things. As you get poorer and poorer, you are going to marginalize more people and have slums and ghettos created in the rural areas. We cannot afford looking at a section like say, with due respect--- I was looking around to see whether my brother from Mbeere was around. We were with him a few hours ago. In that part of the world where we have had a Cabinet Minister from 1963, the population there is only 90,000 people. Places like Naivasha Constituency has 420,000 people, yet every means has been used to try and show how marginalized these people are, and the kind of sympathy they require, yet they do not live in more than two locations. I can see my brother Kathuri is here and he will agree with me that the total population of Mbeere is 90,000 people. I am not saying they should not be assisted. But do we take cognisance of the fact that there are some very populous places now that will not get any service which they deserve like healthcare, including maternal and childcare services, because of this thinking that we have; there is this idea that some communities are marginalized while others are not. Let us look at western Kenyan, for instance; an area with nine Cabinet Ministers; compare it with Nakuru, an area with children of a lesser god; no cabinet Minister since 1963, I am saying this because even those Ministers in the very remote areas----"
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