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    "id": 60839,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let appointments be done transparently. Let procedures for appointments be put in place. You may recall the recent recruitment of game rangers by the Kenya Wildlife Service which was so transparent. The complaints that came from Kenyans were very few. So, we would like all the other organs of Government, including the Office of the President and the Prime Minister’s office to carry out political appointments transparently. They should put procedures in place so that we can avoid this political drama. You also have to realize that during the implementation of the Constitution, one of the critical issues, particularly for areas that have been marginalized since Independence, is the county Government legislation. Indeed, this has been entrenched in the Constitution. I know that right now we have a lot of consultative forums that are going on to look at where the county Government is going to be headquartered, how the Bill is going to be structured and how the county Government is going to be run. Indeed, this gives us the opportunity to break off in order to be able to contribute alongside our constituents towards coming up with a Bill that will be better. If some of us who come from these marginalized areas do not get the county governments right this time, this is not going to be 1963/64 when some of the majimbo governments were removed out of the Constitution. We have to make it work this time round. For the people that I represent, we believe the future will be bright and the under-development of those areas will be a thing of the past if we put the county governments right. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have to realize also that this country is now being faced by so many problems. One of them is the drought situation that is affecting most parts of northern Kenya. The efforts that some of us in Government are putting towards this is not up to speed. You will realize we still have problems of transportation. We do not have enough funds to transport the food. I have heard one of my colleagues say here that there is food in Eldoret and Kitale, but the food is not being bought and neither is it reaching that poor vulnerable family that requires this food. I think we have to re-look at the whole situation as a Government and make sure that fewer and fewer people suffer when we have plenty of food that is sitting in our main granary areas. The second point I want to bring out is the Economic Stimulus Package projects. I want to commend the Minister for Finance for having started these projects. Unfortunately, some of these projects are almost going to become white elephants if we do not allocate sufficient amounts of funds to them. The markets have been mentioned; in some areas we have build new schools which still need a lot of funds so that at least we can have something similar to the national schools that were excelling the other day in the national examinations. You will realize that even in the national examinations that the majority of the schools that excelled were those that the Government has pumped in a lot of money. I looked at our area; the northern part of Kenya, and I did not see any single school in the top 100 schools. I wondered why; it is basically because we have still lived in that past period where we seem to be supporting parts of the country while leaving out the rest. So, let us look at putting more funds in irrigation, the stimulus projects and the geothermal projects. Lastly, I would like to talk about identity cards. I urge my colleagues in the Government to look at the issuance of identity cards. Right now 40 per cent of people in northern Kenya aged over 18 do not have identity cards. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, although I have not finished, I beg to support this Motion."
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