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    "id": 1085442,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1085442/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We are on the 11th year of the implementation of the Equalisation Fund. This Fund has a lifeline of 20 years as provided in Article 204 of the Constitution. I want the Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation to listen to me. The framers of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, said it in subsection (2) that the national Government shall use the Equalisation Fund to provide basic services like water. However, the most important words that the framers of the Constitution used were “to provide basic services, including water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalised areas to the extent necessary to bring quality of those services in those areas to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation, so far as possible”. So, the framers of the Constitution were deliberate in putting Article 204 and providing the Equalisation Fund to 14 counties. By changing it to 34 counties, it is contrary to the Constitution. As the CRA is going round, we agree that there are certain pockets even within Nairobi that are marginalised. However, you cannot compare a person living in Nairobi to a person living in Kitui when it comes to water."
}