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    "id": 1440088,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1440088/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "want to see how much money is in there. Otherwise, we should have a lot of money because we have finished eight years out of the 20 years the Constitution provides. Money is set for the Equalisation Fund in the Budget each year. That money needs to be accounted for systematically. Where is it? Where is that Ksh62 billion? In which account is it? Why is it that the National Treasury never puts that money there? I have projects that were started in 2017 in my constituency when these things started. They have not been completed. If you ask the ministry, it says the National Treasury has not released money. This is until now that county governments have come. They say they must implement the Equalisation Fund after the court ruling. Certain functions are for the national Government. I do not begrudge that. However, my problem is that I want to see a systematic account for the Equalisation Fund in county governments—an account we can audit as Members from those areas. We do not have that opportunity. So where does this Fund go? It comes in as part of the grants from the national Government, and the governors can use it even for functions that are not listed. The Equalisation Fund has only four functions in the Constitution: roads, health, water, and infrastructure. However, what stops a governor from using this money from the Equalisation Fund to buy a red carpet for his functions when he receives it as bank money? What will stop the governor from using this Fund to do things not stipulated in the Constitution? How do we audit the Equalization Fund? Where is the law? What has the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) done to ensure this money is properly accounted for?"
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