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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "One is the function of working with the County Revenue Authority (CRA) to determine or identify the areas that should benefit from the Equalization Fund. Two, this advisory board should prepare the schedule of disbursement of funds from the fund to the areas that have been determined. Three, this advisory board should go further to guide us on whether we are going to have one activity each or whether we are going to have a collection of activities. Let me demonstrate what I mean. If Tiaty area in Baringo County is marginalised; it is an area where people have to walk 100 kilometers to find a hospital or 50 kilometers to find a school, they do not have roads and water, it is my view that, if we say in one financial year, we are putting up a health facility, we will not have any impact. In order for us to be able to say we have lifted this marginalised area and brought them up in two years, this board may very well make the decision that, in the next two years, they are going to put up a Level Three or a Level Two facility, water infrastructure, a school or police stations in an area identified in Tiaty. To do this, this law needs to imaginatively provide a proper chunk of resources to enable this to happen. It also needs to contemplate intergovernmental cooperation under Article 189 of the Constitution, where, it will be saying, even as we put up water, health, and electricity, the national Government must put up the school because that is a function of the national Government. I would hope that those schools come from the funds allocated to the national Government; that the national Government will be putting up the police stations from the funds of the national Government. This means this will be a cooperative intergovernmental initiative to try and bring up this marginalised area to come to the level of other areas. This is the intention of Article 204. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have not seen that in this Bill. Apart from that, we have specific Clauses that I will request that the team looks at. You have Clause 6 which is the establishment of the Advisory Board, you have persons nominated by different groups. At 6(1)(d), it is suggested that we have one person from a pastoralist community nominated by the National Assembly."
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