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    "content": "Constitution which talk about the principles of public finance and revenue sharing and emphasize carefully there as referred to in this Bill what considerations were given in the sharing of the money to the counties. One of those issues is the equalization of marginalized areas among counties and within counties. That is very important to stress: Amongst counties and within counties, the regional disparities and marginalization of sections of counties. If you consider major counties which also have urban populations, not just Nairobi but Nakuru, Mombasa and Kisumu, I think we really need to look at this carefully and make an effort--- While this Bill proposes to say that it will be the responsibility of the county governments to find out and provide information and advice on how those issues will be addressed going into the future, I want to emphasize that the central Government must also make sure that, as we wait for a year to get information from the county governments on future budgets, the regional distribution and disparities within counties matters a lot. For example, Kibra Constituency as one of the 17 constituencies in Nairobi has, for instance, amazing and shameful disparities. When you have people living with the famous flying toilets, I tell you my brothers and sisters, wake up and smell not the coffee, but the flying toilets. It is not pleasant! It is a huge shame and indignity yet we have in this same town of ours a lot of opulence and success. Unless we begin to address these issues, we will never have one great united successful Kenya where everyone feels fully Kenyan. We will always have first and second class citizens of our country and the consequences thereof are indignity, crime, disease and poverty."
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