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    "id": 1520279,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, devolved funds or county funds must also be distributed among the counties in some manner. We must be serious. If we are talking about Article 204 - I do not know why you did not refer to it when you were guiding the House - it already tells us that there is need… If you may permit me to read Article 204(2), it says: “The national Government shall use the Equalisation Fund only to provide basic services including water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalised areas to the extent necessary to bring the quality of those services in those areas to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation, so far as possible.” That is the emphasis. We sat here and I presided over the Committee of Supply with the permission of the substantive Hon. Speaker and I was shocked. Homa Bay Town Constituency was given Ksh6 million under the Equalisation Fund. I am not saying that it is not needy. However, what will Homa Bay Town Constituency do with Ksh6 million? It will equalise what? We do not have measures in terms of how to oversight the money. By the way, where did that money go? That is why… I am requesting you to give me just three minutes so that I speak to the amendments here."
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