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    "content": "Nairobi – I do not know where their offices are. What is so hard for the Treasury to get those figures so that it can help us understand these things? Some of us totally believe in devolution. This is manifested in what the CDF has done to our people. In places where I come from, the CDF is, probably, the first fund since Independence that the ASAL districts have benefited from. We think that the CDF has offered liberation in a place like Samburu. I am worried about where the Equalization Fund is placed in our national budget. It is put somewhere in the national revenue. There is something being played here. We are trying to refuse the idea that this Fund should get into the devolved funds that were supposed to go to the counties. I prefer that the Equalization Fund is given to the Governors with a free hand to do what they think will make them equal to the rest of the country. In Samburu, for example, the Constitution allows the Governors to run nursery schools and technical schools. For us to be like other parts of this country, Governors should be given the Equalization Fund so that they build modern secondary schools and equip them. The other thing is the emergency funding. It is still within the national mandate. The Governors are best placed to determine what an emergency is within their counties. There is an hon. Member who asked me to donate part of my time, but I forgot his name. If you know yourself I have some time for you."
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