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    "id": 455914,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/455914/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Saney",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ibrahim Abdi Saney",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. After Independence, most of the technocrats felt that agriculture was the only worth investment in Kenya. That is why the White Highlands were getting funding and the Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs) areas which comprised 80 per cent of the country were marginalized. The mindset was that the return on investment was greater in the White Highlands and any investments in the ASAL areas were a waste of funds. Unfortunately, they did not realize then that Kenya would not achieve a double digit growth unless we had a synchronized development system of developing the White Highlands alongside their ASAL areas. They never realized that the ASAL areas have the potential; the oil and many other resources that are being exploited today. That was a misconception and I am sure the Constitution in Article 204 envisioned that there is need to establish the Equalization Fund to ameliorate the impact of Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965, which led to the systematic marginalization of areas for over three decades. This lead to the dependence on relief food and gave rise to abject poverty and high illiteracy rates in Kenya’s ASAL regions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the object of this amendment is not to discuss the importance of the Equalization Fund; which is stipulated in our Constitution, the 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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