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    "id": 365897,
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    "speaker_name": "June 19, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 20 Hon. Abdi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I seek to oppose the amendment. I find it unfortunate and ill advised given the fact that there are special concerns in the areas that have been mentioned by the Motion. We should be able to treat this country as an equal opportunity country, but socio-economically this country is not equal. We have the other Kenya which suffers from abject poverty, marginalization, serious underdevelopment and so on. Unless there is an intervention of the kind this hon. Member has requested in his Motion, then obviously we are not going to help the many needy girls in the arid areas. It is important that we clothe those who are naked and feed those who are hungry. This amendment tells me that we should add more to someone who already has something. There is already poverty even in my constituency, which is in central Nairobi. However, it is certainly not equal in terms of scale and needs to Turkana, Moyale or Wajir. I think this is a legitimate Motion that we should support. I would like to advise my colleague to withdraw his amendments because they serve to kill this deserving Motion. He should bring another Motion with regard to those other areas and we will support it."
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