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    "id": 1584734,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, for Hon. Mwalimu Moroto, as much as there is no scientific explanation, but over the years that I have known him, he usually comes in the evening when he is very agitated. I have never figured out the reason for that. His agitation notwithstanding, he was very passionate about the Equalisation Fund money, pleading that this money should have been implemented through constituencies. Whether through a model like the one for the NG-CDF, or any other model. I could identify with what Hon. Moroto was saying because I have been to his county, and they lagging behind like many other counties. This fund was meant to uplift those counties lagging behind. Unfortunately, with devolution, the more the money that goes to a county, the more corruption there is in that county, and the more backward that county continues to be. I do not know why that is so. If you look at the counties that benefit with the highest amounts, corruption is also very rampant, but I do not want to name any particular county. Most of those counties are still in the same state they were at the advent of devolution. You have to ask yourself where all this money is going to. When I listen to the Hon. Vice-Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee speak and allude to some counties like his County, Trans-Nzoia, I could not help but imagine that these are the same governors, who when they are accused of corruption and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) summons them to appear before it or they are arrested, mobilise goons to burn EACC offices and police cars on account of being asked to be accountable for the money."
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