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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Eve Obara",
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    "content": "At the outset, I would also like to support the Budget and Appropriations Committee for this Report. Our colleagues have already said a lot on this matter. I want to thank the drafters of the Constitution for coming up with the Equalisation Fund to address the marginalised areas. They were clear on what it was supposed to be by ensuring that 0.5 per cent of the national Government revenues were allocated to the marginalised regions. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have seen in the Report what has been disbursed to date and what arrears are due. Unfortunately, even as this is happening, they are telling us in the Report that not much has been achieved in the areas where work was supposed to have been done. However, it would have been nice if they had come up with a clear evaluation of the projects done over the years in these areas to see where the focus was and why they are saying it has not helped. Even Ksh22 billion that has been allocated to date is not small money. It was allocated to the 14 original counties, and they are still saying that the money is not enough and it was not enough to go around because of how it was being disbursed. At this point, I want to call upon the National Treasury to prioritise the Equalisation Fund so that the counties can carry out their programmes as planned."
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