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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Really, nothing is out of order. I agree with you. Being a little bit senior in this House, I would like to tell my colleagues that nothing is out of order. Let me proceed and support the Bill. I want to support the Bill by saying the following: One, even though some of us, within our areas, are equally marginalized, I want to tell this House that it is even worse to be marginalized in an area that is not marginalized, because you will really feel out of place. I will tell this House that if you come to Suba Constituency, you will realize that it is the only constituency in the province--- Actually, it is not even like hon. Angwenyi’s constituency that does not have even an inch of tarmac road. All the other constituencies have, at least, some tarmac road. If you come to Suba Constituency you will find that it is the only constituency in that region – the former Nyanza Province – that does not have one inch of tarmacked road. Then you will really feel so marginalized. We must also accept the fact that some regions are just excessively and extremely marginalized. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you fly to some of the regions like Samburu and northern Kenya, you really cannot say that you come from a marginalized area. Let us not confuse this Bill for something else. This Bill is not adding the Equalization Fund. It is only suggesting that we have a system where the Equalization Fund is applied directly to the constituencies so that we do not allow the national Government to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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