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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "on these rights. This is a very important Bill that we must carefully ensure that we have crafted it in such a manner that it will not be a dead law. It will enable us to hold people accountable. The Auditor-General can use this prospective law as a tool to measure performance. In our conversation with the Auditor-General recently, we talked about performance auditing. This is one of the tools that will facilitate performance auditing because we will be able to know what the impact of giving so many billions of shillings is. We will be able to know what it has delivered and what it has not delivered. We will also use it to question the governors who are leaving office. We will ask the governors: “As you are leaving, are you leaving that county in a better position or worse off position?” I urge that we collectively work as the Senate with Sen. Mungatana, MGH, to take into account all the issues that have been discussed, including the discussion of the Equalization Fund, which is discussed and factored in the Public Finance and Management (PFM) Act. However, this Bill has not made that cross reference. The Bill suggests that socio-economic rights should be implemented using the Equalization Fund. It was the view of our Committee that the Equalization Fund is an Affirmative Action Fund intended to handhold the areas that were historically marginalized. It was not the tool for implementation. The primary budget of the Government is the place that should hive off the money for implementing the right to health, water, and housing. The Equalization Fund can only come in to handhold the regions that have lagged behind because they were historically marginalized."
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