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    "id": 1232572,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support and want this afternoon to speak not to the letter, but to the spirit of Article 204 of the Constitution that gave effect to the equalization fund. Every time I look at what has happened in the last five year and the Temporary Speaker and Sen. Tobiko were not in the House, but Sen. Wambua was there. I do not know what happened. They went for the letter in the last five years and completely moved away from the spirit. The letter then became: “Go around with a microscope across the 47 counties, see if there is any little location, division, sub- location, village or polling station where people are faced with challenges”. This is what would be defined as being marginalized. The noble spirit of Article 204 of the Constitution which was to right the wrong that was done to the people of Kenya by a policy of Government that was based on Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. We were supposed to right that wrong. What happened while we were away? Murang’a County and Bungoma County from Western, found themselves on the list. What a lie. Lack of a philosophy when you are governing a country is one of the most dangerous things. In 1963, it was clear that the philosophy of the founders of the nation was African Socialism. They went all out of their way to make sure that they kept on pushing development to improve the socio-economic status of our people. Out went the late President Kenyatta and the late President Moi came in. President Moi said wait a minute; this African socialism is a good thing. It has been pushed by my boss, let me carry it on. So, he brought it with the spirit of perpetual succession of government which they called at that time “Nyayo”. That is the principle of Perpetual Succession of Government. President Moi might not have had the degrees that Omollo, Sarah, Kavata and all of you have, but he understood Government. He called it “Nyayo”. Come Mwai Kibaki, the gentleman saw that we needed a new philosophy moving away from perpetual succession and he told us we are only going to succeed if the nation decides to work. So, Kibaki said our philosophy is going to be for 10 years, the working nation that pays taxes. However, come in the Jubilee Government, no philosophy. People came here and stated sharing the equalization funds like robbers. How would people of Bungoma, Murang’a and the others compete with Turkanas’? Really? Have you ever been to Kitui? You know the areas described by the hon. Senator sometimes they do not see rain, not for months or years. Why would Bungoma compete with it when our problem in Western is that we have too much rain in a year? The purpose of this fund was to give people water, health and electricity connectivity---"
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