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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. Without looking jealous, my county has not received anything. As you can see, there was some discussion whether the formula that was adopted to give counties this money was the best one. I tend to agree with Sen. Omogeni. This money is not to develop counties, but areas within counties. Since Kiambu County contributes to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our nation, we are among the three counties that contribute highest. It does not mean we do not have those marginalised areas. Look at Ndeiya in Limuru Sub-County; Ndeiya is next to Kajiado, we share the same land, but the other side of Kajiado is getting hundreds of millions. We need to relook into this formula and to not think as county as a whole but at that particular ward that requires basic needs. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we are talking about basic needs, we are talking about water, roads and health care. There are so many areas in Kiambu without water yet we supply water to Nairobi City County. We have Karimeni dam, Ruiru Dam and the next dam that is supposed to be built in Ndarugo yet the people from those areas, Ndeiya, Kilimambogo and Thika do not have water. This Equalization Fund should cater for areas, but not necessarily counties as a whole. The Senator for Vihiga and I are co-sponsoring a Bill called County Wards Equitable Development Bill. That Bill together with this Equalization Fund should work in tandem so that at least the formula that the counties are going to use to take money to marginalized areas should be the same formula that the Equalization Fund will be able to use."
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