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    "id": 1120436,
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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": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we already have a problem with this. If you allow this to pass, then they will be implementing that which is patently unfair for the majority of the people of Kenya. It further says: “(ii) the costing of the projects, the recommendations by CRA and guidelines issued by the board.” Additionally, nothing constrains or restricts the implementation to what has been recommended by the CRA. If the Senate was creative in many respects because it is a House of equalization, we could have a designed an even better matrix on how we implement the Equalization Fund. Otherwise, that fund will continue being unimplemented. Madam Temporary Speaker, from the brief by the Chairperson of the Committee, I see that 34 counties will benefit. Many of the counties that are set to benefit from the fund have been left behind for a long time in terms of health, roads, education and many other things. The folly and the fallacy in the minds of many people is that just because they stay in Lavington and other posh estates in the City of Nairobi, it does not mean that the people of Nairobi County are enjoying that which you think there is. The level of lack of access to the things that Article 204 talks about is highest per capita and per individual in this capital city. I wish the Committee had time to go around and witness the lives of many residents of Nairobi City County in the slum areas. The other day, I went to officiate the opening of a basketball court in Korogocho where I was accompanied by Mr. Masai Ujiri of the Toronto Raptors. Later, when, I sat down with Mr. Ujiri, he told me that in as much as we are helping the residents of that areas, the hardest thing for him to imagine is that the players who will use that basketball court are going to be exercising and panting heavily next to a dumpsite. The amount of money that is used to treat respiratory illnesses in that area is so high. The life expectancy of children in that area is lower than any other part of this country because of poor sanitation. How then do I say that Nairobians do not deserve to be addressed in terms of sanitation? A different language should have been used. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to advise my colleagues from the 34 counties to change their attitude. The mentality that one does not have because another one has, is wrong. Their counties will lose nothing if the slums of Nairobi are included. It is for that reason that when Nairobi City County was gaining Kshs134 million on the Division of Revenue last year, I stood with their counties because I understand what devolution and development is. We ultimately had a win-win outcome. The Nairobi City County ended up gaining Kshs3.3 billion because I focused on the interest of the whole country. When I talk about the people of Mukuru, Korogocho, Kibera, Kawangware and other slum dwellings, I am not talking against the people of your counties. That is the attitude that the Senate needs to have. A candle does not lose its light by lighting another candle. In fact, in the process of lighting another candle, it burns brighter. In as much as the 34 counties that are listed deserve the funds---"
}