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    "id": 1015292,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1015292/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I also want to talk about the land area. If you look at that formula, it says eight per cent for the land area but capped at seven per cent. What does that mean? What that means is that a county like Marsabit, for example and I hope I am accurate, if you take its land area percentage to that of the country, it can even be over 20 per cent. So, what this formula is doing is to cap it at seven per cent so that no county is allocated resources beyond seven per cent of the total land area of the country. I hope I am making sense on that. So, largely, these are the things that we should have discussed. Poverty is very clear and easy. You use the poverty indices of the 2015/2016 Financial Year. I have heard people mention and talk about why we did not retain the formula for 2019/2020. If you retain the same formula — we used to divide the Ksh316.5 billion in the last financial year and apply the recent statistics of population out of the Population Census of 2019 — and you apply the statistics of 2015/2016 regarding poverty index and any other indices, you will have 12 counties losing revenue. That is why, on that score, I agree with the Senate that we should have done exactly what they have done, of agreeing to have allocation of the Ksh316 billion, as it were in the last financial year. Finally, Hon. Deputy Speaker, because I know your five minutes, what you gave me graciously, are coming to an end let me just explain one aspect."
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