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    "id": 1550606,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "that the Constitution provided. My constituency, which has a lot of marginalised areas, gets around Ksh8 million. What can you do with that amount to bring equalisation? Some areas were not even considered for many years during the constitution-making process, but they have been put in now. You are told that an area, for example, in Kiambu, which received a lot of resources then, now becomes part of the Equalisation Fund. These are areas that have benefited from other resources. There is a reason the Equalisation Fund was put in the Constitution. There was a big argument that we need to fast-track these areas to be like others. Therefore, we need to equalise these areas. However, what the people at the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) did played into the politics of the Jubilee government then. They wanted a share so that this could easily pass here in the House. We agreed to do that, but it has made the Equalisation Fund not to have sense. It does not make sense completely. For example, we have a whole area in Kilifi County, Ganze; even if you look at the statistics over many years, the poverty index is among the highest. Yet, they will get, for example, Ksh20 million, and other areas that have benefited from colossal allocations will get even more just because of politics."
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