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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other one matter which I just want to touch on, I know details will come out of the Committee that we have and of course from Members who are going to debate it. I have personally been a Member. I come from a county that has been classified as marginalized. I think, automatically West Pokot County has been a beneficiary of the Equalization Fund. Even if West Pokot County was not a beneficiary, I would still say this. We suffer the most from the leadership in our counties. If this Fund was to find its way into the pocket and hands of some of our governors, it would be a very difficult thing for us to manage to get it to reach places where it is supposed to. Governance in our counties is an area that even with the Equalization Fund, people look at the money that comes as though it is brought so that it is taken and misused. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not very sure that we should be spending a lot of our money trying to form more bodies that are going to create more corruption centres. It will end up bringing us back to square one as though we never started. There are areas that I think and I agree we may not be able to stop corruption because we have tried as a country. Even in this County Allocation of Revenue Act in the next financial year, we hope that more money will go to the counties. Sometimes I wish we could just allow the old money to be handled by the governors. This new money which is going there, we should really have focus on how does that money go to a particular thing that will not be affected by the normal erosion that we know happens to our money. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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