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    "id": 1440083,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, the question is: What organ is mandated to safeguard and ensure the Equalisation Fund is in place? There was a time when I wasted my shoes walking to the Office of the Principal Secretary of the National Treasury every day. Until today, he is supposed to be the person in charge of distributing those monies. However, on Ex-chequer releases, the Principal Secretary is a culprit even when it comes to the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and county government money. What will he do if he is under pressure from county governments? He will release the money. He will release the money for NG-CDF when under pressure from the National Assembly. However, who puts pressure on behalf of the Equalisation Fund? Such a structure is missing in the implementation of the Equalisation Fund. I remember Hon. Kamket tried to propose some changes. We even looked at the Act and agreed to form a board like the NG-CDF and the Council of Governors’ boards. Who will ensure that the Equalisation Fund is disbursed at the same time the NG-CDF is disbursed? However, there has been a lot of politics about the Equalisation Fund. This is why I challenge the lawyers in this House, including Hon. Millie Odhiambo. We need to amend the law so that, at the end of the day, people marginalised systematically in this country get a fair share of what the Constitution intended."
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