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    "id": 1460803,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460803/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "Out of the monies that are given to the counties, there is the basic share of 20 per cent for the Equalisation Fund to cater for a population at 18 per cent. Healthcare will get 17 per cent against poverty levels of 14 per cent. Agriculture will get 10 per cent; lands 8 per cent and urban at 5 per cent. When we come up with Kshs7.8 billion for the Equalisation Fund, do we ask ourselves whether the money we have already given them has had an impact on poverty alleviation. Devolution is supposed to sort out this matter, but some countries are so poor that children still study under trees. They have been given billions of shillings since we started devolution. Obviously, we have a problem and yet, all the former governors are shameless billionaires today. While we look into the revenue sharing and monies allocated to the three arms of government, the most important thing we have to consider are pending bills. The national and county governments have impoverished many Kenyans by receiving goods and services from them, but not paying them. We are not providing money for the pending bills. We keep having committee after committee and yet, those are Kenyans who have employed people. They borrowed money from banks. Some of them are committing suicide and having serious mental health issues. We have to be a country that cares by taking a holistic approach. I pray and hope that, somehow, the three Arms of Government will sit down together and have a conversation about where we went wrong, what we are doing right and whether they are directing us to do right."
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