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    "id": 403408,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, allow me to start by thanking my friend, the Leader of Majority Party for this answer. Sometime in 1994, as a young engineer, I went to northern Kenya, Merti Town in Isiolo, and when we were being introduced, a young Programme Engineer by the name Boru, kept asking us how Kenya was. That question sounded very strange to me, but when I laid my hands on the highly acclaimed Sessional Paper No.5 of 1965, I understood where Boru was coming from. In truth, that Sessional Paper was for partitioning of Kenya into two classes, namely the neglected part and the part that the Government cared about. There are parts of this country which have suffered massive degradation and these parts are to be found in the northern part of Kenya, which was initially called the Northern Frontier District. While I thank the Leader of Majority Party, I realise that the interventions that are needed may not easily come. This level of degradation builds tensions in the country, whether we like it or not. There are some of us in this country who do not feel as if they belong to this country. I urge the Leader of Majority Party, by way of a comment that as we go forward--- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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