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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. As colleagues will realize, the Schedule indicates the counties that are beneficiaries. There is an indication of some of the constituencies and the wards within those counties that are partaking of this particular fund. Madam Temporary Speaker, so that we do not get into a quagmire during the time of voting as it happened earlier, some Members mistook the sharing of this fund to be an entitlement of all the 47 counties and all the 290 constituencies and the 1,450 wards. Far from it, the error arose from the anger of some Members. After seeing certain counties benefitting, they started to ask themselves, why not theirs? When people see Baringo County, they tick. There are high levels of poverty there. They then see Turkana, Wajir, Marsabit and Mandera counties and others and they tick. However, when counties such as Bomet, Bungoma, Kericho and Kisumu start to benefit from this fund, there is a bitter taste. People started to say, if Kisumu County can benefit, why not my County of Kakamega. If Bomet can benefit, why not Vihiga? I appeal to colleagues that there was a criterion that was worked on by the CRA which then went for pockets of poverty. To the extent that, when you see Bungoma County, it is because of a unique pocket of poverty in the harsh terrain in Mount Elgon that invites this award. This is the same argument for the rest of the counties. I appeal to colleagues to vote for the Bill. The CRA has painstakingly identified these pockets of poverty in reasonably well-off counties such as Kisumu, Bomet, Kericho and Murang’a because of those extreme things. That is my substantive contribution. I appeal to colleagues. We just came from Turkana County the other day. You realize the challenges these people from the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) are faced with. I conclude by saying that never again in the history of governance of this country should we have a blunder like the one that was made in the Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. This Paper profiled the ASAL areas as non-deserving of development because their populations were not big enough. For a period up to 2013, these ASAL areas were left behind in development. The intention of the 2010 Constitution, as you know, since you are one of the drafters, was that an affirmative action be applied for a period of 20 years to see if these areas could be"
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