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    "id": 938025,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938025/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to such an extremely important Bill. Article 204 of our Constitution sets up the Equalisation Fund, which decided that there were counties and regions that were left behind courtesy of the infamous Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. In that Sessional Paper, resources were allocated to high potential areas. At that time, the “kitchen” cabinet that was describing the high potential areas were mostly farmers. Due to their way of life, they thought high potential areas are only on agriculture because they were entirely agricultural people by occupation. So, in their own retrogressive thinking, they alienated 80 per cent of the land mass of Kenya endowed with other resources such as minerals, tourism, livestock and other underground resources such as wind power in Loiyangalani and oil in Turkana. If today we had a “kitchen” cabinet to decide which area of Kenya is high potential and I am the chair of that particular cabinet, I would say livestock is high potential. This is because from the time I was born, I started tasting livestock products, I slept on hides and skins, and I survived in school courtesy of money from livestock. Therefore, I do not blame the drafters of Session Paper No.10 of 1965, but I blame the areas where we decided were of high potential. That is why we had marginalisation. That is what the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 wants to cure in Article 204."
}