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    "id": 938046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "tomorrow. This is why I am saying CRA needs to open up its eyes much wider to ensure that even as we do equitable sharing of these resources, we also do not forget to invest in the same. I have always had an issue even with our resources here in Parliament. I look at my constituency, my eight wards and my population of 237,000 and compare it to some constituencies that are under 50,000 people and others which are under three wards and we are getting the same NGCDF resource. That is not a way of arriving at equitable development. I have just talked about my constituency. I have compared it with my neighbours. I have seven neighbouring constituencies and all of them have less than five wards. I have eight. We receive the same resource. We are expected to produce the same development result at the end of the year. This cannot happen. This will not possible. Therefore, I urge my brothers who I really feel because as I said, I am well-travelled in this country. I have travelled in the 47 counties in this country because of my previous assignment and I know the suffering out there. However, even as we do so, let us also acknowledge that there are also other areas which are not categorised by the definition of the words “marginalised community” and are suffering. Let us acknowledge that we need to come as a Parliament and widen our scope and look at the country as one and determine what we need to do in each of the areas so that we can achieve this equitable development without addressing the historical marginalisation, introducing some future marginalisation and leaving it to future generations to come and sort out. I fully support this Bill but we will also come in strongly to argue our case, especially my case where I come from in Mwea, an area that was historically supposed to be a grazing area for livestock. It is an area that has a lot of potential right now but, as I have said, people do not have water. We rely on canal water for irrigation. That is why our region has recorded the highest rate of incidences of the disease. We shall, therefore, be coming in to argue our case so that even as we support our brothers and sisters to see better development in those areas, they should also look at some of the areas that are not historically known to be marginalised yet in the real sense they are marginalised. With those few remarks, I support this Bill and ask that it be enacted as quickly as possible so that we do not lose 20 years to review the status of this country."
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