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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/455813/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this very important Bill. From the outset, I would like to thank the Mover, hon. Lelelit, for bringing this very important Bill, which affects the most marginalized people of this Republic. The Equalization Fund, as indicated in the Constitution, should have 0.5 per cent of our revenues. It is a very important provision that this Constitution made, so that the marginalized areas can be brought to the same standard with the rest of the country. The marginalized areas are very many. It is amazing that for the last 50 years, areas like Turkana, North Eastern, Pokot, Samburu, Tana River, Makueni, Kitui and Maasai land, have been marginalized. These areas generate a lot of foreign exchange, but nothing goes back to develop them. When you look at the Maasai Mara alone, a place which is considered one of the wonders of the world, once you pass Narok Town, it becomes a nightmare to get there. A lot of foreign exchange is generated by the Maasai Mara and nothing goes back to develop the area. All of that foreign exchange is brought to Nairobi; it is misused; it just disappears. When we talk about 50 years, and my good friend, hon. Kamama, talked of the Suguta Valley, where there is no Government, he wanted to explain about anywhere else in the Republic where we do not have services, roads and other facilities such as police stations. That means that there is no Government. More importantly, we lost 47 policemen in the Suguta Valley and to date, their guns have not been recovered. That means there is no Government there."
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