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    "id": 84279,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "would not cost much. If you do so, then we can export faster to Middle East and Asia. We will have business people open their hotels along the road and railway line. You can also be able to export clean water through the same system using the major rivers that we have in Mt. Kenya. Mt. Kenya people had better listen to this. They should look at Mt. Kenya sometimes other than where the God of the Kikuyu lives. They look at it differently. I am looking at it as a place where they can get fresh water piped along that line and you feed all those towns there. People will be able to trade freely. I am saying this because those people who live near the Somalia and those who live in Eastleigh can bear me witness that we have had more incidences of people killing each other in Kawangware, Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Kibera, brother to brother, than Somalis killing another person, although they are said to be heavily armed in Eastleigh. Then, where did we pick this idea? Where did we get this idea that these people are war-like? Why do we have to damage our brains to an extent that we are denying ourselves this God-given opportunity to be a neighbour of a very rich country? Why can we not participate in the development of Somaliland coast? Why can we not have our embassies in all those states? I support this Motion fully, given my background and training. I am here and I do not want to be seen to be carrying only wishes. I am here because Kenya is listening. I know the Ministers are away but the HANSARD is on. If they have the time, they can read it. If they cannot read, they should ask their personal assistants to read for them what I am saying. In our next year’s Budget, they should have a railway line from Isiolo, all the way to Mogadishu. They should also have water pipelines from Meru to Isiolo. That way, we will have a very big city called Isiolo and others like Garissa and Dadab. Refugees will no longer be a problem because everybody will be involved in construction. I have said on the Floor that we have the biggest mass of water under the surface in Lorian Swamp. That water is enough to supply Nairobi, maybe, for 60 years or 70 years. That water can be exploited if we are serious about what we are doing. We can come up with an irrigation scheme that can accommodate over one or two million Kenyans. That swamp can be utilized so that we can export foodstuffs to Middle East, India and China. Those counties in question, under the new dispensation, should be listening to this. This House passed a Motion some time back allowing the Government to utilize US$100 million guarantee to import food. Why do we need to be told 1,000 times that, that money is available? Give that money to the Ministry of Agriculture and North Eastern Province can also feed this country. If you do not know, you had better ask John Mututho. North Eastern Province can feed this nation and the rest of you in ODM and PNU can continue politicking as that area develops. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to support this Motion wholeheartedly."
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