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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me start by supporting the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill as laid by the Vice-Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. This Fund, as everybody knows, is important in taking care of marginalised counties. As I support, I would wish this House considers the effectiveness of the Fund. It was meant to bring the marginalised counties at par with other counties in the country. Looking at it critically, as the Report states, we started with 14 counties. One would expect that with time, as we bring the marginalised counties at par with others, the counties would reduce to below 14. But as we can see, the marginalised counties continue increasing. That means that, probably, this Fund is not being used effectively. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have seen some of the counties advertising projects that are not of any significant importance or that are not likely to create any impact to those counties. When this Fund is used to do a road of Ksh5 million and things that are not sustainable, we wonder whether these marginalised counties will ever be removed from that bracket of marginalisation. Having said so, now that the Commission on Revenue Allocation is preparing the third The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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