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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the Equalization Fund (Administration) Bill (Senate Bill No. 14 of 2023) was published on the 12th April 2023, and read for the First Time in the Senate in the sitting held on Thursday 14th May, 2023. Thereafter, pursuant to Standing Order No. 145 of the Senate Standing Orders, the Bill was committed to the Standing Committee of Finance and Budget for consideration. The Bill proposes to establish administrative structures for the efficient management and utilization of the fund. Equalization Fund is established under Article 204 of the Constitution of Kenya. It provides for improvement of basic services such as water, roads, electricity and health services to counties that were considered marginalized. I have heard quite a bit of discussions in the House where marginalization was equated to poverty and vice versa . It is worthwhile to create an understanding that marginalization is not equal to poverty and vice versa. Marginalization is a state of under- development and poverty arising from deliberate resource denial by successive Governments starting from the colonial administration to date. The drafters of the Constitution envisaged the Equalization Fund to address this and bring these areas that are gravely underdeveloped to enjoy a level of services enjoyed by the rest of the country."
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