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    "id": 422934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2469,
        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "As a matter of fact, I fully support this Bill because we have problems like other places. The Governor has not come to my constituency despite the fact that governors have been given resources. Although this is a matter for this afternoon, I would like to say that, maybe, the Constitution actually made a wrong choice of a name. The people getting the name “governor” have made them almost “lords” in the constituencies. Maybe, we should have called them “coordinators”. There is selective distribution of resources in most counties. Some areas have been favoured by the governors simply because, probably, they did support them or because they have affinity to others. However, I would like to beg the ministry which deals with the prioritization of the Equalisation Fund to re-look at it once again. There are many areas that do not enjoy anything in terms of development. They have been left out in this Fund. This means that although the funds are going to be availed to the constituencies, a constituency that has poor people like mine may not really benefit because this Fund might not be targeted for the County of Kitui. I think we need to move from using the county as the reference point for the Equalisation Fund and use the constituency. If you look at constituencies like Mutomo and mine, which are in Kitui County, they are absolutely poor. If you use the basis on which we calculate CDF distribution, you will see that those two constituencies rank very high nationally in terms of poverty as defined by what we get. I support the Motion. But rather than use the county as the reference point for determining who gets the Equalisation Fund, we should use the constituencies. That way, we will be able to reach the poorest of the poor who continue to suffer, are marginalized and left out in the Third World."
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