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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I appreciate and acknowledge all the Members who weighed in on this Bill. Indeed, the Fund was established so as to address specific objectives. I support all the Members who have already alluded to the aspects of the specific projects namely: roads, water, electricity and health that this Equalisation Fund is supposed to address. Members have raised critical questions, even with respect to the impacts. Going forward, an assessment should be done on all the Equalisation Fund Projects so that we can ascertain whether it realised the intended objectives. Further, Members have also raised concerns with respect to the management of the Fund and how the beneficiary counties or pockets were identified. During our engagements with CRA, I took them to task to explain how some constituencies like Teso South, missed out. Busia County is one of the poorest counties. We rank at the bottom in the poverty index. No area in Teso South Constituency was picked yet there are areas in the constituency where when we have a sick person 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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