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    "content": "However, marginalization has been structural and deliberate. When I came to Parliament for the first time, 15 years ago, I told the Speaker then that my constituency did not have a metre of tarmac road. I also told him that my constituency did not have a metre of piped water. It did have a national school which my sister has just talked about. They laughed at me. Now, at least, I can say that we have some electricity, water and tarmac road. Many people do not have a Member of Parliament to mourn about these things. I heard my sister, the other Senator; say that she only saw tarmac when she came to the University of Nairobi for the first time. When you are taught about tarmac in high school, you just imagine how it is. Students in Mfangano Island in my Constituency saw a vehicle for the first time when we got a ferry to take the first vehicle to Mfangano Island. Some people told me; you mean, hon. Kajwang, that there are some people in this country who have not seen a vehicle? I told them that there were also many people in this country who had not seen a boat. In that part of the country, the vehicle used is a boat. At least now they have a road, ferry and vehicles. This was deliberate marginalization. That is what I am talking about. I saw the Permanent Secretary for Education, refreshingly, in Garissa launching a public college which will eventually graduate into a university. He said that it is Government policy to build a university in every county. So, the idea that if they are built in the 47 counties they will turn out to be white elephants or that there will be no students to go there because our people are very poor to take students there, is not true. Most of us did not go to university using our own money. We did not have our own money to go to university. We borrowed from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). I think we should give it more funds so that it can loan more students to join universities in this country. We are ambitious. Of course, we have to be ambitious. You can go nowhere without ambition, not even to the Senate. So, we will be ambitious and invest. For example, the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology (RIAT) was born out of a deliberate effort by the people of that region. They had ambition to build the first"
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