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    "id": 1027403,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "give you people bursaries of Kshs500 million, but it is not there; go and find it from your Senator.” What does it gain us to benefit two per cent when he is losing all of that percentage? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to move on to the part of the variables of that formula which I found completely wrong. Allow me to talk about my county. First, when we talk about health, that the variable is measuring how many people visit hospitals. What do you do to the counties that do not have hospitals to be visited, in the first place? That county will never ever rate anywhere on that health variable. You cannot use the number of outpatient visits to measure who needs hospitals. You need to see how many hospitals exist in those counties per person. Look at a variable like poverty index. I have spoken about this repeatedly for the last ten years. Poverty index is a measure of darkness. The world over, we have moved from poverty index and we use what we call human development index which tells you access to the actual facilities for which we were devolving funds. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in India, they even have something they call provincial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a key variable to help some of the states or provinces that are producing to also be encouraged to produce more. That is how we should have gone. I want the people of Nairobi City County to hear me very clearly. In the agriculture variable, Nairobi City County has been given nothing because of the notion that there is no agriculture in Nairobi City County. The allocation for agricultural activities in Nairobi City County is only Kshs40 million. If you go to Dagoretti South Constituency, you will see, for example, in Uthiru, Ruthimitu, Mutuini and Waithaka, people do more agriculture than some counties combined."
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