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    "id": 365983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2469,
        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion because it intends to address inequalities in the development of our country. The ASAL areas have continued to lag behind. Successive Government’s investment priorities since Independence have favoured certain areas. It is, therefore, natural that we look for ways of addressing these inequalities. I commend the Jubilee Government for coming up with a budget that seeks to equalize those unequal developments. However, we need to deal with the girl-child specifically because she suffers much more than the rest of the society in the ASAL areas. Teachers tend to like to go to urban areas where comfort levels are higher. In my constituency, Mwingi North, most of the schools have one-half of the teachers required simply because nobody wishes to come and teach there where he or she will most likely sleep in a grass thatched house. We also need to look at the issue of income distribution. We talk about the country as if we have a uniform income for the whole population. That is unfair because we are likely to perpetuate the inequalities that already exist and are being addressed through other positive discriminatory policies. I went to school in Kyuso. I would walk 15 kilometres to school and 15 kilometres back home. That has now changed, but slightly. We need to have boarding schools so that a number of girls are able to make it through our education system. Three weeks ago, I attended a school education day. The biggest disappointment that I got was that in one sub-location alone we had 15 girls who had dropped from primary school as a result of early pregnancy. This would not have happened if the girls were in boarding schools. I realize that we cannot have boarding schools for every child, but at least let us protect a few who will go back to educate and support other girls. In conflict areas where we have cattle rustling and insecurity, women tend to be more vulnerable. I strongly support that the Government comes up with a programme that will protect this vulnerable persons of our society. Hon. Dukicha could look at a situation where some of his investments in CDF come to Mwingi North. That way they will not have floods in lower Tana. This is because we will use the money to irrigate more land and empty the Tana and produce food for the people of Tana."
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