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    "id": 1520206,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520206/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. With a very heavy heart, I rise to contribute to this Bill. The very foundational object and spirit of having an Equalisation Fund was to correct the historical marginalisation of sections of this country. The idea was to equalise the resource allocations that were done from 1963 to 2010, by bringing those areas where there was no Government development up to speed with the rest of the country. This does not deal with contemporary poverty pockets everywhere in the country. At the time of inception of this particular provision in the Constitution, many Kenyans voted for it because of the need to correct historical marginalisation. We only had 14 counties in mind that were basically starved of resource allocation because of, among other things, the Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. Those counties were Tana River, Marsabit, Mandera, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Kwale, Samburu, Isiolo, Turkana, West Pokot, Garissa, Wajir, Lamu and Narok. We have now convoluted the Fund and used the structure of the people in power to translate it to fund every pocket in the country. It has lost its meaning. I was part of the framers of the Constitution. The idea was to bring public services like roads, hospitals, educational institutions, electricity and water to the areas that never had access for many years since Independence. Today, areas like Tseikuru, Nguni and Ukasi in Mwingi Town, where I pass through as I go home, have never seen development since Independence. When you go further into the north…"
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