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    "id": 390351,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/390351/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 447,
        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I see that this Equalisation Fund issue is raising a lot of attention, but I do not know whether we have read this paragraph in the Constitution very well. I can read it for everybody. It reads:- “The National Government shall use the Equalisation Fund only to provide basic services including water”. You have to count the pipes and their inches and then you come and compare, measure the length of roads that are tarmacked in your county before you talk. You count also the number of health facilities that somebody can walk in and get treated and go home. Count the number of electricity poles, schools and homes that are lit at night using electricity. These are funds meant for marginalized areas to bring the quality of services in those areas to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation as far as possible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my senior colleague of the big county of Kitui should wait for three years so that we can sort out things. Sen. Moi should also wait for three years. When I looked at the Kshs230 million they have given to my county it cannot do anything substantial in my county. I do not know whether it is true, but I am even told that it may end up going through the hands of the Members of the National Assembly to decide how that money should be utilized. We should seek to see whether what we are actually talking about is making sense. I was in charge of a university. I had 120 students from Kitui and only four students from West Pokot in that same university. So, if we begin to bring all our issues, including those people who are working in the Civil Service here and we count how many are from which county, you will find that we are automatically marginalized. So, all the money should be ours. You are even lucky that you are number 15 and 16. So, let us leave it up to next year. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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