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    "content": "this sector to generate cheap power. However, there have been allegations of corruption in geothermal power generation which should be checked. There is a lot of good quality coal in Kitui called lignite coal. It produces so much power per tonne. Most of this money should go to the generation of power through that coal from Kitui. It will create employment and this country will move forward. On the transport sector, we know that the Government wants the economy to grow by double digits because it promised that. Allocating Kshs. 132 billion to the transport sector for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), the Lamu Port and South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor project, the Greenfield Terminal Project and all the other big infrastructure programmes is very good. However, while we allocate so much money to these mega projects that we believe will turn this country’s economy and make it a middle income country in very few years time, we should not forget rural roads in places that have been marginalised since Independence. I am talking about northern Kenya, Maasailand, Nyanza and Coast Province. An affirmative action should be taken so that those areas get priority and not concentrate development in one region. Kericho is overdeveloped but Maasailand is not. Members should understand that Nairobi was part of Maasailand. Most of these areas were part of Maasailand but the Maasai have been pushed to Kajiado and Narok. We should have an affirmative action because Maasais are indigenous people. When we develop this country, Maasailand, North Eastern, Eastern, Ukambani and Coast Province should get roads. Development in these other places should be slowed down because they have benefited. Today there is a lot of flooding at the Coast. The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has been advocating for more money to the counties and the reason is that we want to develop these areas but this money is too little. In fact though we have been fighting for Pesa Mashinani and OkoaKenya, there has to be accountability from the Governors because there is a lot of corruption in those counties. In the county where I come from, the Governor admitted that there is massive corruption and he will sack people. We want heads to roll even in those areas. The education sector has got Kshs 200 billion under this amended Motion. For this country to develop education is key as it will drive poverty out. When you have a population that is informed and educated, the country develops faster. We have seen in South East Asia and China in particular that most of the economic growth is realised in those regions because they have taken education to be very important. What has baffled me and troubled me --- I want this Budget and Appropriations Committee which is headed by a very balanced, Christian oriented and good man,who refused to be the President but who is a very good man---"
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