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    "content": "South Sudan. Uganda has done well in South Sudan because of the road which links the two countries. The road that links Lokichoggio and Nadapal is dilapidated and nobody wants to look at it. As we speak, there is a 20 kilometre stretch between Lokichoggio and Nadapal that I want to challenge the county government and the national Government to fix. It is now stopping trucks from reaching South Sudan. To go to South Sudan through Turkana is 1,500 kilometres and you go through one checkpoint but if you went through Busia, it means that you go through two checkpoints or three checkpoints. If you went through Busia, you would pass through Arua or Kitgum and you would have covered two borders. It is 2,500 kilometres to reach Juba than covering 1,500 kilometres through Lokichoggio. However, those officers who are doing the planning in Nairobi will not allow us to get that road. This is killing the industries in Turkana. Uganda has benefitted a lot because many of these trucks are going through Uganda. Uganda has done so much and yet the peace in South Sudan was brought by Kenya. We get so little from South Sudan compared to Uganda which supplies so much to South Sudan. A lot of their people are employed in Southern Sudan compared to Kenyans. We are not even protecting our people in South Sudan. If something happens to a Ugandan in South Sudan, the Ugandan Government moves in to protect its people. Kenyans are being frustrated and killed in South Sudan and yet we cannot help them. We cannot even repair the road. Our economy is being destroyed in Turkana because of this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we shall sit down as the rich county of Turkana to help our people get out of this poverty. The first agenda in Turkana is to get us out of the negative media. The Governor of Turkana, his staff, the Senator and the Speaker should ensure that the Turkana women, children and the old are being fed. That is my responsibility and the responsibility of the county Governor. It had not happened in the past and it is a big challenge to us. I was in Lokichoggio and I said that in the villages people are dying. When you ask the Provincial Administration, they will tell you that those people were sick and yet an old woman in a hut has not eaten for three to four days and there is fatigue with the United Nations food agencies who have been distributing all the food. I also want to challenge my brother who wondered why we receive relief food all the time. There should be zero tolerance to hunger as a basic human right. As long as we are in this country, we must continue feeding the Turkana people who have a right to eat. That old woman in Turkana has also a right to eat three courses of a meal and not one course because they get one course after three days."
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