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    "id": 1235236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Equalization Fund. We should vehemently refuse any attempt to delay the one-half of the audited accounts that is called Equalization Fund that is supposed to go to these people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is more, medical personnel, nurses, paramedics, clinical officers and doctors do not want to go to work in those places. Therefore, we still have a situation in Kenya where an 18-year-old girl carrying a normal pregnancy loses life because there were no medical personnel to midwife her delivery. Equalization Funds must be released. In the meantime, as we wait for the perfect situation, we still have an opportunity. I call upon my medical colleagues who work in the military - nurses, clinical officers and all manner of paramedical staff, to happily go and serve in those institutions because of the kind of security training they enjoy. Finally, in support of this Equalization Fund, I call out the following counties: Kakamega, Nakuru, Mombasa, Nairobi City and Machakos. The governors in these six big counties must stop sleeping and waiting for sharable revenue. They should collect their own money from own source. It is a fact that Nairobi City has the capacity to collect Kshs68 billion from own source. It means, they should not be coming here to scramble for the Kshs19 billion or Kshs20 billion that they get from sharable revenue. They should just collect the Kshs68 billion. If they did, the statement that was raised this afternoon by the Senator of Nairobi City County would not be a necessity. They would not be sacking those 700 employees of the Inspectorate. They are sacking Kenyans who have been given jobs by Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) who have families, children in school and bills to meet. They are being sacked simply because there is not enough money to pay them and yet the County Government of Nairobi City can collect Kshs68 billion. Kakamega, Machakos, Mombasa, Nakuru and Kiambu counties can collect more. They should go and collect that money instead of scrambling here for the sharable revenue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I strongly support the Equalization Fund Bill. I rest my case."
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