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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it is heart-paining and very sad to hear people who come from Nyeri and other parts of the country that they need to kill the spirit of the Constitution. I like what Sen. Sifuna has said about issues of water in many parts of the country where the Constitution targeted. As he has said, people in Nyeri have rivers. I am sorry to talk about Nyeri, Sen. Wamatinga, because you are supporting the expansion of the initial list to other parts of the country. People in northern Kenya, where I come from, go for two or three weeks without even taking a bath. In some dams that are constructed, people drink the water that animals urinate in. Therefore, it very sad to be selfish as leaders. I wish there is a way that those who sit at the national level can visit those parts of the country and see the kind of challenges our people go through. In many parts of northern Kenya, mothers carry jerry cans on their back, travelling for kilometres and hours. They leave in the morning at six and come back in the evening with one jerry can of 20 litres back home. That is the same water that they use for animals and their homes. In some parts of this country, electricity is connected to mud houses. If you go to some parts of this country, especially in northern Kenya and where I come from, there is no electricity connectivity. There is no electricity connectivity in many parts of those sub- counties and locations. I think it is good to be sincere. Therefore, when you stand on the Floor of the House and say that expansion is good, it is neither good nor fair. It is unequal. I can tell you this House in the last Parliament made a blunder to have allocated that money to the county government. This is because that money is shared actually in Nairobi with individuals who do not even know some parts of those counties. There is no public participation. People are given contracts without advertising. There is need to review the expansion of the list so that we are fair to the people living in those areas or intended for initially as far as Equalisation Fund is concerned. Madam Temporary Speaker, in my county, there are dispensaries that were constructed by the Equalisation Fund. I talk of Mwangaza, the one that Senate visited when they went there and Akadeli that is not even complete. It is a shell. Nobody is checking which projects have stalled and which ones have not. I urge the Committee on Finance and Budget to call the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning to look at what impact Equalisation Fund has on those counties that it was intended to support. It was intended to run for 20 years. We have almost done 17. There is zero impact as far as Equalisation Fund is concerned. I believe devolution has assisted in one way or The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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