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    "id": 768004,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I would like to support this Motion, but with a lot of reservations. One of the things that need to be done is to put in a Bill and the need to be more comprehensive. Expanding the roads will demand that you touch someone’s land. In those areas where road reserves have been occupied by the public, it means even the cost of constructing emergency lanes will go up. As the Bill is being prepared, Hon. Melly needs to look at the physical planning, the Ministry of Lands and all that goes into it so that it is a multi-sectoral approach. My reservation is that while I support this Bill, I know it will take a century for such a road to be constructed at the Coast region, when you look at the amount of marginalization that the Coast has undergone during the different regimes in this country. While my friend Waweru Kiarie was saying that he did not sleep, he has a hangover because he was celebrating the swearing in of the new President, I actually also did not sleep because I was agonizing about another 10 years of marginalization of the Coast region. That is why when you go to the people of the Coast and ask them if they have a President, they will tell you they do not have. Why? They believe there has been systematic marginalization of the area, such that if you are talking about a service lane here in Nairobi, they do not even think that a tarmac road will ever be built in the rural of the Coast region. These are the things which hurt the region and the people there end up saying they need to secede and move out of this country called Kenya."
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