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    "id": 826934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I stand to oppose the proposed amendment by my brother. The bigger reason I am opposing is that the Member has forgotten that the cities we are creating under this law are development units. When they are development units, you need to share resources fairly. The Constitution says that there should be fair distribution of resources in terms of geographical representation. One way of sharing resources is population. So, you cannot rule out population when you are doing cities. These are not techno cities. Maybe that is the problem with ICT persons. They might be thinking these are techno cities where you go and map up a centre and make it a kind of office. That is why I had proposed earlier before we go there. In our Committee, we saw that because they are developmental units, we need to set aside some money to fund them. Because of that, I want to remind my friend that these are development units and should have equal statuses in the country. Otherwise, if we do not do that, every market centre will be saying that they are cities because they want resources. We will kill the country."
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