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    "id": 1520104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I had a similar Bill before this House during the last Parliament. Let me begin by saying that this is an enabling piece of legislation. This Bill is meant to operationalise Article 204 of the Constitution on the administration of the Equalisation Fund. Currently, there are Regulations administering this Fund that were developed by the National Treasury. As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Using the current Regulations made by the National Treasury, and given current experiences, the Equalisation Fund is one of the most abused funds in this republic. One of the ways in which this Fund has been abused is through double allocation by county governments and overlapping projects and programmes. You find a county government has done a road somewhere and it allocates a similar amount of money for the same road. During the Committee of the whole House, I will propose that the administration of this Fund be moved completely from the counties. I have looked at this Bill and there is no provision for removal of the administration of the Equalisation Fund from the county governments. The Bill seems to over glorify the role of county governments yet they are the culprits when it comes to abuse of this Fund."
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