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    "id": 1300135,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1300135/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "There will be special accounts that have been put in place so that these funds can be distributed to different counties. We have experienced a number of challenges. I urge the Senators, notably the 47 elected Senators, more so the 34 Senators whose counties are benefitting from this fund, to ensure that they play a key role in ensuring that the projects that have been identified in those regions are well executed to completion level and usable to the community. Our role as Senators is oversight so that there is an impact on the funds that have been given to these regions on matters of the four basic needs that I had mentioned earlier. We have political issues whereby you will realize that, when governors are coming in, they are coming with their own new projects all the time. Therefore, what happens to the shells that have been built and they cannot serve Kenyans? It a high time, especially on this particular fund, for the Senators to ensure that the disbursed Equalization Fund, which is an additional allocation to these counties, are utilised as per the plan of the Committee that has been set in place. There is a Committee on matters Equalization Fund. Mr. Speaker, Sir, they need to ensure that these projects kick off to completion to avoid matters pending bills because the funding is available. The first time I stood here on the same Equalization Fund Bill, you realize that we had funds. The total sum for this fund started at Kshs52 billion. However, there was the earlier disbursement amounting to about Kshs26 billion."
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