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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this morning I want to speak as the Member for Garissa Township and a pastoralist. If I do not contribute to this Bill brought by hon. Lelelit, then I will be doing a lot of injustice to the people of northern Kenya and marginalized groups. From the outset - I do not want to be controversial - I want my colleagues to see that I am not controversial; I want to state the following facts, that in 50 years of Independence, we pastoralists have not produced a president, a deputy president or a prime minister. It is these positions that were used to develop the country. Eastern Province produced a vice-president; the Rift Valley produced a president and a deputy president; Nyanza produced a prime minister; Western Province produced a vice- president thrice. The Coast region and northern Kenya, the pastoralists, have never produced any of these figures. The closest they have come is this time when they have produced a Speaker of the Senate. What am I coming to? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, during the successive regimes of the late Jomo Kenyatta, retired President Moi and retired President Kibaki, State offices were used to develop regions. Today, it is only in the pastoral areas where you cannot see a kilometre of tarmac road. It is only in the northern Kenyan region where you can count the number of health centres in existence, which do not even have facilities. It is only in the northern Kenya region where there is no good education system. I can even say that previous successive regimes in this country perpetuated conflict, so that people in the northern Kenya region could live in abject poverty. The framers of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, did justice to the people of Kenya. Firstly, they introduced devolution as a vehicle for development of the marginalised areas of this country; secondly, there is the introduction of the Equalisation Fund, which is pegged at 0.5 per cent of national revenue. It is sad that today the people who will not benefit from devolution are, again, those in the northern Kenya region. 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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