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    "id": 1186162,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the drafters of the Constitution envisaged that the Equalization Fund would try as much as possible to bring the development in these deliberately disadvantaged regions to a level closer to what the other counties enjoy. Unfortunately, in later years, after a lot of bureaucracy on lack of implementation of utilisation of funds, the resultant impact is that they had to redefine what marginalisation meant. Marginalisation was then equated to poverty and vice-versa. It then gave rise to the discussion about revenues in the Equilisation Fund to be given to marginalised areas. In context, the whole concept of marginalization was different by the drafters of the Constitution. That disadvantage led to more marginalized areas where the second policy came into play. We had more than 2,000 marginalized areas. When we engaged CRA on that policy, they argued that they were looking at pockets of marginalization within the counties, especially those affected by food insecurity and other issues. They insisted that they were looking for pockets of poverty within the counties. This Bill seeks to address that. It was unfortunate that we tried to drag it. Unfortunately, we have lost 10 years of the first 20 years of the Sunset Clause. We agreed that for the sake of moving on, and not beating the system, that issue has not taken root. It still remains clouded."
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