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    "content": "one point of Mombasa to the next in a campaign or any other situation. Today, Sen. Wako was requesting the CIC whether they can give him the privilege of flying from Wilson Airport directly to Diani, because he indicated that the ferry is going to cost him hours, which he needs as the Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs. One Government after the other has given us a master plan showing that there is going to be a bridge. Even the Euro Tunnel started and was finished, and it was bigger than that little passage. So, every other thing is a vision and that is why we need to capacitate these counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for me the vision must be real, because I travel that road everyday. If we do not walk or travel the path that we ask to be tarmacked, then we will never know. Waswahili husema: “Kiatu usichokivaa hujui kinapobana.” Most of us live in Nairobi and have no idea. All we do is to go and see who we tender to amongst friends and allies. Therefore, it is important that devolution is achieved in spirit and letter. When we finally devolve development, the companies that reside in those areas should be given principal consideration in building of highways and infrastructure. Mombasa has conglomerates and people who are able to undertake massive engineering works, even if the vision of devolution is to ensure that we give necessary capacity for people to have the incentives to be able to develop those capacities. Therefore, do not tell the people of Mandera that you need a conglomerate from China. Give the incentives for Mandera to develop its own conglomerate, so that they can undertake massive public works in engineering. The same applies to my brothers from Samburu, Siaya and everywhere else. Therefore, we should not deceive ourselves that some of us are more endowed than others. I come from Mombasa and think that we have similar capacities like any other person across this country. Therefore, we must never repeat the dark chapter of what this country underwent, of a privileged few dominating over the masses. We must ensure that we devolve in spirit and letter."
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