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    "id": 1300191,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1300191/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I do not want to speak long on this. This is a Bill which was discussed and approved by the Senate. Therefore, we expressed our views. I expressed my views on the purpose for which this Equalisation Fund was created. What we are doing now is giving authority for funds to be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund and then spent. With this authority, we have an opportunity to emphasize our concerns. My concern then and even today is that the Equalisation Fund is not serving the purpose for which originally we thought it was. It was established to address the inequities and inequitable distribution of wealth, which was created because of Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. In that document, the Government introduced a policy that the areas that would be developed by the Government are those with the highest return – which meant that they had the highest return on investment. The amount of money you get out of every shilling you invest. These high-potential areas did not include the ASAL areas. These were the areas which---"
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