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    "id": 1186053,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I hope the Chairperson of Committee on Finance and Budget will look at my Solomonic submission and ensure that we do not travel in that direction. This is a very serious issue. We are aiding and abetting corruption. If this will be investigated, they will be shocked. When somebody will walk through this door in future, they will be surprised that the Senate sat and said this is a public rip-off but they went ahead and approved for finances to medical equipment as key. Another point is on the accountability aspect. I have talked about this with governors. They should be aware that it is not optional to be accountable when the money goes to the counties, including the conditional grants. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the equalization fund; I know you served in the National Assembly and we really grumbled on this issue of the equalization fund. Who qualifies? How do we use it? What is the criteria? How is it compounded? We had a discussion between the National Assembly and the Senate. We agreed that, marginalization does not happen only in North Eastern. You can have marginalization even in Nairobi, Meru, Nandi Counties and anywhere else. When a report was tabled here during the fight on the revenue formula; I have heard my brother alluding to - those days, I was for “one man, one vote, one shilling” This is because I believe money should go to where the people are. The more the people the more the money. At the end of the day of course, the Senate fought and came up with a win-win situation. At that time, a report was tabled by Kenya Bureau of Statistics (KBS). The report stated that poverty is not only in North Eastern or in Mandera, poverty is domiciled in Busia, Kakamega and many other parts of Kenya. Whereby, traditionally we had perceived that the marginalised areas are poorer. We realised that the areas that are not being perceived are worse including areas like Migori County. Therefore, the issue of equalization fund in terms of marginalization in the concept of the Constitutional provision, must be re-looked at. I am happy that the equalization fund, Nandi County got around Kshs158 million. That is for a number of locations and sub-locations levels that are within Tinderet Sub County. The rules and regulations for the equalization fund under article 204 must be re- looked. The Committee on Finance and Budget should be futuristic because the marginalization scheme changes. By the way, with the Housing Program the President has; I confirm to the Senator for Nairobi City County, Sen. Sifuna that, after sometime, we will change the face of Kibera. The living standards of Kibera will change. What does it mean? It might move away from the marginalised and now become economically stable. Somewhere else within Nairobi City County might develop to something that might create marginalization. We need to re-look on how we allocate the equalization fund going forward. On the fourth and final point as I finish on the issue of equalization, is the issue of accountability. We must re-look at ---"
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