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    "id": 1120483,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this report. From the onset, I thank His Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta for requesting us to pass this Bill so that he can assent to it. He promised us when we made our visit to the State House last time that he will assent to it. I am so grateful to him. The second equalization formula was passed in this House in June 2016. For those who were here, the argument about who should or should not have been on that list should have happened at that time. Now we are going to the third formula. The first formula was for only 14 counties that were really marginalized, but they never benefited. The second one is for 1,424 sub locations that were assessed and should have benefited from this up to date. I want to indulge the other Members who are not in this list to support it because there will be a third generation formula. Let me give you the amounts because I heard people arguing about the figure. What is allocated so far from the equalization fund is Kshs21.8 billion, but we should have been allocated Kshs29 billion. What should been set aside according to the revenue that we generated was Kshs29.4 billion and not Kshs21.8 billion. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of my former colleagues from Oxfam that I worked with a long time ago in 1995 or 1996 called me the other day. At that time, he was a procurement person. He told me that his money is stuck in the National Treasury and he completed his project in 2018. He is really struggling. This money needs to be unlocked because the initial regulations were rejected. The governors were not happy and they took it to court. The improvement from the other regulations to this one is the fact that there are at least two representatives for the Council of Governors (CoG). There is one from the CoG and another one from this House. I assume they will represent the interest of counties. As Senators, we will nominate someone into that board. I think that it is much better than it was. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think that which areas should be in or out, is the argument that we need to give when we pass the third generation formula. Like Sen. Olekina, I am really grateful to our brother Sen. Sakaja for helping us with the formula. His time is coming and we will support him to ensure that Kibra slum is included to be benefit."
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