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    "id": 1012263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 366,
        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "In fact, if I may check, they have allocated more than Kshs9 billion, but those have not been disbursed. Now this section has not been implemented. Had it been implemented in the last ten years, at least the marginalized areas would have gotten something. When the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) began implementing this particular section, they made a mistake. They thought marginalized areas were marginalized counties. The Constitution does not talk about marginalized counties. It talks about marginalized areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important Bill. That is why I have stayed up to now at least for my voice to be heard that we have not implemented this Article. Now that we are doing it, I hope it will be on a regular basis so that the persons in marginalized areas can benefit. At the time this Constitution was being done, it was marginalized communities which were in the “have nots” if I may say so, within Kenya. Since Independence, other groups have arisen and not necessarily those. In my opinion, we may require an amendment of the Constitution to provide for another fund, which will take care of the urbanized poor. They are those who stay in slum areas which are everywhere even in Busia County, Nairobi City County and Mombasa County. They are everywhere where there is an urban area. We need to have a specific fund also targeting those particular areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, if I may now go a bit professional, I noticed that in the Bill, they have been very careful in defining marginalized community and giving a definition of that. They have been very careful in simply copying the marginalized community as enshrined in our Constitution to be the definition here. I think that was good. In the process of doing that, they forgot the marginalized group, which is also part of that community which is also referred to in the Constitution. I would want maybe at the Committee Stage or wherever, somehow the marginalized groups also be taken into account and not to be left out. Madam Temporary Speaker, when the Constitution was being drafted, it deserved only 0.5 per cent with a population that we now have."
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