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    "id": 797005,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am not speaking as the Leader of the Majority Party, I am speaking as the Member for Garissa Township Constituency. I also hold a privileged position given to me by the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group to be their patron. I am not a framer of the Constitution. The wisdom behind the framers of the Constitution is to realise that Article 204 is important for certain reasons, certain resources and certain communities. I would like to send a warning to the Commission on Revenue Allocation. There are places like Igembe that border Isiolo. Some of us are proud to have been born in the most hostile environment. We have no apologies to make. We are pastoralists, we rear camels that endure hardship and they can stay without water for 30 days. We are proud of that. But a provision of the Constitution cannot be diluted. We can even remove the whole Article 204 and be like other Kenyans. If the CRA is watching me, these are resources meant to uplift certain communities, regions and constituencies that were left behind by all the successive governments. The Constitution provided two avenues. One was the advent of devolution. Today the people of Garissa have their own assembly and resources. With the floods, we have a government that can provide The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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