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    "id": 1157682,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157682/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Oundo (Funyula, ODM): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Petition is timely and raises very weighty issues that require serious consideration. The notion or the fallacy that all constituencies and all areas are homogeneous in terms of topography and facilities is a very wrong assumption. We have raised this in respect to the Equalisation Fund. You will find that some areas have high poverty indexes as a result of historical issues. It is high time the Public Service Commission and all interested stakeholders developed a very clear criterion and measurement tool to determine which areas are hardship areas and which ones are not. With the continued effects of climate change, we will have very many changes in the way we rate or categorise counties or constituencies. It is high time we developed a criterion that can be changed or altered depending on the way things go. It is ironic that 10 years after devolution, we still talk about hardship areas yet we continuously pump billions of shillings into county governments. How come they have never addressed the challenges of water, poor roads, food security and the rest? It is important that as we develop this tool, we look at it holistically, so that we can know which areas deserve attention and which do not by virtue of getting huge allocations of the county government funds. I support the Petition."
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