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    "id": 1067440,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1067440/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 104,
        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
        "slug": "peter-mwathi"
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    "content": "Allow me to mention sharing, which is also very pertinent. I feel, and this is my submission, that in Kenya, we know there were historical injustices. The historical injustices are such that some areas were left behind when others were developing. But when we gave ourselves the Constitution in 2010, we found it fit to introduce the Equalisation Fund to try to help those areas that had been left behind. In the same vein, if we are going to amend the Constitution, we should do it in a manner or in a way that we do not marginalise or create marginalisation in areas that are probably perceived to have been developed. I say this because there is a time I did my mathematics, and looked at the money sent as devolved funds to each county and if you check the amount that has been given per head, take the money and divide it with the population, you will find that some areas get an equivalent of Kshs7,000 and others Kshs24,000. But in these changes, Article 203 of the Constitution shall be amended in Clause 50(a)(n) to ensure that the average amount of money allocated per person to a county with the highest allocation does not exceed three times the average amount per person allocated to a county with the lowest allocation. So, that speaks to the new marginalisation that is coming and the injustice that will be done to counties that have so many people, once we do the mathematics per head."
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