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    "id": 1176413,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1176413/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is it in order for Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who is the Senate Majority Whip to mislead the House? Is he aware that in the shareable revenue formula; the counties that he is purporting do not get enough resources---. I said this on the Floor yesterday, they are the counties being ravaged by drought. For the last 10 years, Turkana County has received more than Kshs120 billion yet Nandi County has received less. It is corruption that ails the counties. Most of the money being returned to the National Treasury comes from the ASAL counties. Mandera and Turkana counties are returning as high as Kshs4 billion of unused money to the National Treasury. Is it in order to mislead the House that counties that are purported not to have or counties that have or affected by drought are eating too much from these counties? Secondly, Article 204 states that the Equalisation Fund is supposed to provide for basic services like water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalized areas. It does not provide for irrigation. It is the counties’ work to use shareable revenues to come up with irrigation schemes to plant their food. Even in Nandi County where I come from, part of Tinderet towards Kisumu, we have landslides. Article 204, also talks about marginalized and disadvantaged areas. It does not only restrict itself to drought and famine, but it talks about other disasters, including landslides, earthquakes, among others. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we fought about this matter in the last Parliament over allocation of revenue. We came up with a win-win formula where every county benefits. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale should be asking the counties affected by drought and famine where they put their money. Where is the Kshs120 billion that went to Turkana County? Where is one irrigation scheme? Why are there dry boreholes in Laisamis Constituency yet we have allocated billions of shillings over and above these counties that are being purported like Kiambu? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we were fair in the distribution of shareable revenue. We would have said one man, one vote, one shilling, but we decide to overlook and give a chance to the counties that serve us. What you should be doing as counties affected by drought and famine is to address corruption in your counties. Let those Governors be held accountable. We cannot lie to Kenyans---"
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