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    "content": "dispersal of political and economic power to the margins. Kenya, today, has two countries in one. There is the Kenya of the core of Kenya and the Kenya of the periphery. The Kenya of the periphery is for the majority of the people in this country. Unless we integrate it through devolution so that today you can hear people in Turkana have Kshs10 billion to decide how to spend it, so that we can hear that Marsabit, the largest county in Kenya has some Kshs6 billion or Kshs7 billion where they can sit down and agree on how to bring development in that area rather than relying on a functionary seated in a highrise building in Nairobi. Sessional Paper No. 10 destroyed us by simply saying that we concentrate on “high potential areas”. They defined high potential areas as areas where there is some tea, coffee and rainfall. This is missing the point by a wide margin. Today, we are staring at the potential of the county of Turkana being the economic solution of this country in the next 50 years in terms of oil reserves, water reserves – the biggest underground lake is in that county. Counties like Marsabit are full of natural gas deposits. If we are not careful and we do not implement devolution, we are igniting a resource war in this country because of what I call the lack or the failure of the politics of solidarity. Solidarity politics is where there could be a county X in this country that does not look so productive today – that is the mistake we did by declaring the northern frontier district unproductive – but 50 years down the line, they could be the fulcrum of prospering this country. Unless we stand with such areas today, we have no business as it is happening today now that Turkana has been declared an oil county, every Tom, Dick and Harry is running to Turkana to buy plots and to invest in that county yet for 50 years, we have ignored, demonized and humiliated those people by saying that they do not have food and are dying of hunger. Devolution seeks to change the paradigm of this country. The earlier we brought inclusivity and solidarity development in this country, the better for this country. With those remarks, I beg to move the Motion and in the tradition of the “Upper House”, I want to ask the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Wetangula to second. Thank you."
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