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    "id": 1085483,
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    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": " Sorry, Hon. Deputy Speaker, you may need to protect me from my colleague, Hon. Wamalwa, because he is interrupting me. I rise to support this Motion. Where I come from, this Equalisation Fund is not equal as per the term “Equalisation.” The selection of the marginalised areas is not fair at all. The way it was done before was not fair at all. There are areas which have become more marginalised than they were before. The criteria used in identifying areas to benefit from the Equalisation Fund is biased. The decision makers are also biased. Who said marginalised areas are where pastoralists come from? There are people in Kenya who are not pastoralists but are marginalised and do not feel like they are part of Kenya. They do not herd animals but live in poverty. There are dry areas in Kenya which have no water and food. Sometimes, they rely on relief food which never comes because it is not reliable. It is called relief food but it is not reliable and people continue to suffer. There are also areas with no basic infrastructure. They have no water, electricity and they are not pastoralists. I agree with the Motion on the following basic grounds: 1. It is considering the areas that were left out before. 2. It is also changing the model of operation by creating Committees which in my view create more transparency and equality in the division of revenue of Equalisation Fund. 3. It is also including constituencies. Chairman of (inaudible) and these are representatives of the people. They listen and hear what the people say. I, therefore, support the Motion on those basic grounds."
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