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    "id": 1520080,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to The Equalisation Fund (Administration) Bill (Senate Bill No.14 of 2023). The essence of the Bill is literally to repeal the Public Finance Management (Equalisation Fund Administration) Regulations of 2021. Let me admit that I was not around when the Chair of the Committee moved the Bill. I have not had a chance to look at the Report. Obviously, everybody would want to ask why fix what is not broken. We do not seem to have been told what is wrong with the Regulations and whether failure to implement and get the work done as contemplated under the relevant provisions of the Constitution is a result of a fault in the Regulations. Nevertheless, we just see a creation of unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy yet the Equalisation Fund was supposed to be more or less like a rapid response fund to address historical marginalisation as a result of inequitable distribution of development in the country based on Sessional Paper No.6 of 1966. Let me state that the Bill is creating a bureaucracy. The objective of the Bill is to provide for administrative structures for the management of the Equalisation Fund; to establish an advisory board, and for connected purposes. This presupposes that there are no administrative structures yet we have the county governments with relevant structures to implement projects. We have line ministries at the national level with relevant structures to start implementing projects. We already have an established National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), to which authority could be delegated to undertake the projects mentioned herein. My first point of concern is that this Bill creates unnecessary bureaucracy that needs to be cured during the Committee of the whole House. 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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