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    "id": 1242229,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1242229/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
        "slug": "ledama-olekina"
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    "content": "How do you expect that farmer who is intelligent to benefit from this Bill? Earlier on, I was causing havoc with my sister who is a 27-year-old Senator. We have reduced over Kshs3 billion on the Equalisation Fund that was set aside by the Constitution to go to counties. The excuse that we have is that the National Treasury does not have money. The Constitution states that a certain amount of money should be set aside every year. The National Treasury should have been setting aside that money. We have reduced the money and denied my county money it is supposed to get. One of the things that annoys me is that in all these boards, there is now an equalisation secretariat, which takes about Kshs416 million. What is the secretariat doing? You have reduced the fund to about Kshs300 million. In this Bill, there is a board allocated a lot of money in the budget. They are doing this instead of taking the money to counties, so that in the agricultural budget of each county they can allocate money to employ field officers who will go to cotton growing regions and support young farmers. There is no way we will change this country, if all we think about is establishing boards which consist of a chairperson appointed by the President vide a gazette notice. You are creating more jobs while complaining that our wage bill is bloated. I persuade my sister - although the Bill is the property of this House - to scrap the proposal. Let us begin to draft legislation while keeping in mind what is happening in our counties. Not every legislation we develop must have a board. We are creating more jobs for a few individuals who are known and the rest will not get it."
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