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    "id": 1521356,
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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "sponsors of the Bill, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will be happy to ensure we have a watertight law. The Equalisation Fund Act was declared unconstitutional by the Court. We look forward to having a watertight law that balances the distribution of these resources. As Hon. Umul Kheir said, we need to have projects that are not so thinly stretched to the extent that the impact on the marginalised areas is not at par with the rest of the country. Hon. Kaluma said that when little money is allocated to a water project in a big town or city or a marginalised area, it does not have a good impact. Instead, we have fewer projects that impact the community. Hon. Members who have a way of assessing the success of these particular projects said this. Another bigger debate that we should have, which needs to be addressed better by the other House, the Senate, is that some areas are marginalised because of political interests. Some counties and governors perceive particular areas as not having political support. They end up neglecting them in allocating resources for those projects. Unfortunately, even some of the NG- CDF committees also neglect some areas. So, as much as we want to bring those marginalised areas to par with the rest of the country, it is also important to have the political goodwill of all the leaders and people who allocate resources to our communities. We do not want to disadvantage or marginalise some communities because of our political differences. With those remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply."
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