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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lillian Gogo",
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    "content": "I also want to appreciate the Committee for bringing this Bill to the Floor of the House through the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, who is my friend and colleague. Members have shared their ideas on the Equalisation Fund. The purpose of the Bill is to operationalise and give effect Article 204 of the Constitution by establishing a system that will make this Fund work well for Kenyans. I do not want to go back to what you and other Members have said on the component of time that the Fund should be subjected to so that it is effective. However, I want us to carefully listen to ourselves as leaders of this country. I want each leader of this country to have a conference within themselves and look at the role they have played in the neo-inequality in this country. Members are currently busy jostling for positions on particular committees in the House and in the Senate. Even when we go for elections, the goal is always to win so that “my people” are catered for. You hear the phrases “mtu wetu” or “watu wetu”. What about the rest of Kenyans? Where do we put the rest of the country? Where did we take our patriotism as a nation to the extent that when somebody is put in a seat of responsibility, they cannot consider Kenyans from Turkana, Coast, Western, Maasai land, and Migori? This Fund was supposed to address historical injustices. As I added while I was applauding you, we need transitional justice in this country by way of development and addressing political and socio-economic issues. We have the National Government Constituencies Development Fund that is distributed equally across the country to 290 constituencies. What does the NG-CDF do in this country? Can it not even address the very basic issues? It is in this very House that we have Members who do not even use that NG-CDF well. I stand to be guided and corrected. But these are some of the causes of economic injustices in this country. We have 290 constituencies where the money goes in equal measure. We also have devolved systems."
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