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    "id": 69607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. M. Ali",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 74,
        "legal_name": "Ali Mohamud Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I may refer to what we submitted, North Horr is 38,000 square kilometres. The whole of Upper Eastern is 20 per cent of the nation. If somebody comes around and tells us that the whole of that mass of land is going to be ignored as if it does not belong to this country, it is not fair. The population of Moyale is said to be 103,000 as per the population census. We wrote to the Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and disputed that. That is not fair because the Commission based its report on false population figures. We have written to the Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to correct this anomaly and copied to the Ligale Commission. If you were keen enough and looked at the registered voters in Moyale, it is the second largest in the whole of North Eastern and Upper Eastern put together. Since the census, have these people crossed into other countries or have they all died or have the others multiplied in millions and, therefore, left us in the same position? We condemn the outcome of the census that hon. Ligale based his work on. That is why we want to appeal to this honourable Committee and this honourable House to ensure that the Commission we are going to set up will be fair to this country. As you know, I made a submission to the IIBRC in Embu and it is in the HANSARD. The population of every child who is born in the urban areas in this country--- A Report from UNICEF indicates that three out of every 1,000 die while, in the arid and semi-arid areas, 300 babies die because we do not have health centers and dispensaries. Therefore, our population cannot measure up. Constitutions all over the world are there to guard the people who are disadvantaged in a country. I will give an example of India, where your counterparts come from. The constituency of the Speaker of India has got a variance of over 65 per cent because of special consideration. Can we not rise to the occasion and look at our nation as a whole and look at some of the factors that have kept that region in a condition of under-development for very many years? We have been left behind. Everybody knows that. Thanks to this Government because last year, a stretch of 130 kilometers of a tarmac road was constructed from Isiolo to Merile. I want to thank this Government for that. What have we been doing since Independence? We do not have health centers. You will get one after travelling for 80 kilometers and we want to equate people at par. Are we being fair? Is this House being fair? Is the Ligale Commission being fair? It is not fair. If you are an honourable Member, you must be honourable at all times. Let us not look at the fact that since you got a constituency, and so be it. Let us not be greedy. Let us ensure that we are fair. I want to submit that this House rises to the occasion and ensure we do what is in the best interest of this country. I second."
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