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    "id": 1106597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "through a poverty assessment research or survey, which looked at certain factors. These were health, sanitation and electricity, amongst others. However, as much as the Equalization Fund was a good thought supposed to deal with those injustices committed way early, in 1965, just two years after independence, is looking at areas that have been marginalized for 50 years. We require 50 years and more for these counties to be at par with those counties that benefited from that Sessional Paper of 1965. That is not something that can be achieved in the 10 years of its application now. We take note that it has stalled for the last 11 years. We hope we shall pass these Regulations, so that the Fund is now implemented and these counties can continue benefiting and trying to catch up with those others that have been way ahead. I would also love to point out that these areas that have been marginalized for many years will one day become a savior when these other counties have depleted their resources. We know that resources are not permanent. Seventy per cent of Kenya is not arable and, therefore, falls under the marginalized areas. Thirty per cent can quickly be depleted. We, therefore, need the other 70 per cent. We need to start thinking along those lines. What are we doing to the 70 per cent of Kenya that has been marginalized for so long? I would have expected that the Committee recommended a certain review of the Second Marginalization Policy, so that we include certain sub-locations in certain areas that probably benefited in 1965, but have sub-locations that fall under this category of marginalization. We might have arguments of whether marginalization is equal to poverty, but that is an academic argument. We have notorious areas such as in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu that have slums that suffer from issues of health, sanitation and lack of electricity. We were informed how the illegal connections of electricity cause the frequent fires we face in these slums. I expect that the Committee can still make that recommendation and a review of that policy to include certain--- We could still make that recommendation, a review of that policy to include certain sub-locations that suffer the same fate."
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