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"speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Equalization Appropriation Bill. It has been a long time coming. We have been agonising every year about money being distributed not for equality but for some form of equity. The framers of the Constitution decided that it was important to uplift the standard of living of those people who were left behind when this country was developing. I have listened to my colleagues especially my good neighbour the Commissioner opposing this Bill and I wonder whether he truly understood the meaning of marginalization. If you traverse the expansive Narok County, or traverse the expansive Kajiado County and all the other 32 counties that have been allocated with just a little more money to ensure that there is a hospital; to ensure roads are graded not paved; to ensure that those residents who live in those dilapidated areas get access to some form of water, you will be shocked. Today if you go to Mosiro in Narok East, it is a place where when the sun is there during the dry season, people die. However, with just little money, a dam can be built and"
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