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    "id": 1520107,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": "of this Fund be removed completely from the county governments. In any case, Article 204 of the Constitution is very clear. Article 204(2) states that the national Government shall use the Equalisation Fund only to provide basic services, including water, roads, health facilities and electricity, to marginalised areas. The Constitution does not refer to marginalised counties. It refers to marginalised areas. Article 204(3)(b) states that the national Government may use the Equalisation Fund either directly or indirectly through conditional grants to counties in which marginalised communities exist. The first option is to use this Fund directly. However, this Bill seems to have ceded the utilisation of this Fund to the county governments, and that is where abuse and double allocation of funds begin. I propose that we amend this Bill to ensure that the role of the county governments in the utilisation of this Fund is minimised. Hon. Speaker, I want to differ with my colleagues who have spoken about the expansion of the space of this Fund. The first marginalisation policy by the Commission on Revenue Allocation identified counties erroneously as centres of deprivation. I appreciate the second policy, which was done by the CRA because it went up to the sub-location level. In the first policy, most deserving marginalised areas, like Tiaty, were left out. However, in the second policy, which went to the sub-location level, most deserving areas like Tiaty Constituency benefited from this Fund. It suffices to say that marginalisation is not a good thing. Some of my colleagues are trying to make marginalisation a birth right. Marginalisation is not a birth right. It is a bad situation that you find yourself in because of the policies of past administrations."
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