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    "id": 1440082,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "important to give money to the Equalisation Fund as county governments. The Equalisation Fund is given to counties earmarked for equalisation. That is the tragedy of the Committee here. That is the tragedy of Kenyans. All Kenyans who voted in the referendum, including people from my constituency who woke up very early in the morning to vote for the Constitution, agreed to this Constitution. It was for knowing there is something called the Equalisation Fund inside that Constitution. Kenyans knew it would take care of those that have been marginalised and underserved for many years. No meaningful development has taken place there for many years. A sessional paper was allowed in this country in 1963/65 to deliberately and systematically marginalise certain communities, including communities in the Coast Region. We are at that crossroads today. The crossroad is, is this Equalisation Fund not as important as the money sent to county governments and the national Government? Hon. Ndindi Nyoro here will tell us about money that goes to county governments and the trillions that go to the national Government. However, he lays the least emphasis on the Equalisation Fund. When the does not come, we all in this House make noise in solidarity that the Ex-chequer must be released. The Council of Governors (CoG) is there to make noise about money when county governments do not receive their money."
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