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    "id": 1232565,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1232565/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, when matters like this come to the Floor of the Senate, this is one instance where Senators are called upon to show and demonstrate leadership. There are going to be issues arising from this list. There will be people we lead who will feel that in their own estimation, they are marginalized and should have benefitted and yet they have not been listed to benefit. There will be other people who will be feeling they have been earmarked to benefit from the fund, but we believe we could have gotten a little more. It has been more than 10 years since the drafters of the Constitution gave us this document. Kenyans passed it almost unanimously that we needed to create this fund so that we develop areas that are not properly developed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my appeal to my colleagues is that we demonstrate bipartisanship on this matter of Equalization fund. Let us pass this Bill. After passing it, let us push the National Treasury to release funds. I have read in the report of the Committee that this fund should not go to the CRF. That will be an issue of debate. One of the things we must be clear about as we pass this Bill is to ask ourselves several questions. How shall the functions under the Kshs13 billion to be released to the Equalization fund be oversighted? How shall we hold the people responsible for rolling out those funds in those areas accountable?"
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