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    "content": "other support to the informal sector, the Youth Fund and the Women Fund will not be supported. We need to assert our authority as the Senate and make sure that the money that is supposed to go to the counties actually goes. We should actually fight Treasury because the problem in this country is the Treasury. It is good the President talked about industrial devolution, but we need to create industries in our regions. Industries in this country are all centralized in Nairobi region. We would want a situation where industries will be created all over. I know where Mr. Speaker comes from we have the fishing industry in Kalokol. We have talked of pumping Kshs30 million to improve the fishing sector and yet we cannot get that money. We have tried to get Treasury to support the abattoirs and the fishing industry but we have not been able to get it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Turkana County now has the potential in mineral exploitation. Again, it is an area we want the Government to come out clearly. We should not talk of the oil discovery in Turkana and expect to come to Turkana to grab land in order to throw the Turkana out of their ancestral land. We have directed the Turkana leadership, including the Governor, that we put on hold all land sale transactions. Nobody should rush to Turkana to purchase a piece of land near the oil refineries. We do not even expect the security agencies of this country to help us in enforcing that. We will deal with such people ourselves. Unless this matter is resolved properly, you cannot just rush there to pick a piece of land. One m zungu came the other day – I must report this – with trucks and with a title deed. He said that he had been allocated the land near Twiga and the refineries in Turkana. We have the Ngamia II, III and IV. People are being issued title deeds and coming to occupy those areas. This mzungu came – Mr. Speaker, I know you know this story – with trucks and buses loaded with some people from Naivasha. You want to occupy the land and yet you cannot even employ the locals to fetch firewood for you or even to do the fencing. What did the Turkana do? We had to throw them out. It is not fair and we want to challenge Kenyans to wait until we open up land allocation in Turkana. At the moment, we cannot accept it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, tourism is a sector we want to develop in Turkana. This sector is doing very well in other areas of northern Kenya, the Maasai area and the Coast but the circuit in western Kenya that goes round to Turkana has not been exploited. We would want a situation where security is provided to tourists alongside the Turkanas themselves. Then with the interesting scenery in Turkana land, we can open Turkana to tourism. With the LAPSET project which is now stagnating and we do not know what is happening; we should be able to open up Turkana. With the nice land of Turkana that occupies Lake Turkana, the Kidepo National Park bordering Uganda to Sudan, the Elemi Triangle which is part of Kenya, we should be able to open up tourism in these areas. Finally, I want to talk about the infrastructure. When we talk of improved infrastructure in this country, it is not the Thika Superhighway only that has improved this country. We have the Kitale-Juba Road that will open this country to the economy of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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