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    "id": 651475,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/651475/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Member for Navakholo for bringing up this issue on behalf of his constituents. It is an important issue because, as the Member for Chuka/Igambang’ombe has said, some constituencies are just one sub-county. Kibra Constituency, for instance, for a long time, was split between two sub-counties and we did not benefit. We were actually marginalised because sections of our people were in Dagoretti Sub-county and others in Langata Sub-county. I am grateful that the Government and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, in December last year, gazetted Kibra as sub-county. We now have our own Deputy County Commissioner. But when our young people want to join the military forces and Kenya Wildlife Service, they have to go to Nyayo Stadium which is in Langata Constituency. I hope very soon the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security will respond and rationalise those areas. That way, young people in Kibra Constituency will get their recruitment drive done at Woodley Stadium in Kibra or at the DC’s Ground, which is closer to them. At such places, they will feel at home rather than getting out of the constituency to an environment where they feel intimidated and disadvantaged."
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