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    "id": 817829,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This Motion affects Northern Kenya which cuts across Turkana to Wajir, Garissa, Marsabit and to some extent, some marginal counties like Baringo, Samburu, Isiolo and so on. For a long time in this country, there has been benign neglect of children in the northern part of this country, partly contributed by the prejudice caused by colonialism when the area was rudely referred to as the Northern Frontier District (NFD). Subsequent governments treated the area as hardship and many times, civil servants have been posted to Northern Kenya as a punishment and not a duty to work for the people of this country. That profiling of Northern Kenya has led to incredible injustices committed on the people of this region. People have been denied opportunities and rights to the extent that many people in Northern Kenya have to find their way in the lower parts of Kenya to get opportunities. This is wrong and dangerous because even if we do not go to the Constitution, it is an inalienable human right engraved in the Geneva Convention on children’s, human and everybody’s rights, that education is available to all. It was a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and it is a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) under the United Nations (UN) to which we are signatory. Kenya is a signatory to every convention on education and culture under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and other UN agencies. Madam Temporary Speaker, when this House debates the issue of marginalisation, inequality and neglect of Northern Kenya, we are but only bringing to the fore an issue that all caring and minding governments should be able to deal with. Sen. (Dr.) Ali has very amply articulated the issue. These days, whenever I listen to him, I see how age can mellow people. When we were together in the “Lower House” in the earlier years, he was an immensely noisy debater and could shout at the top of his voice to attract the attention of all and sundry. However, the measured manner in which he has presented his Motion and the feeling that he gives to this House and the country is something that this House must support as a duty."
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