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    "id": 455895,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "have been listed as marginalized. If you look at some of the areas like Keiyo Marakwet, Keiyo is better. If you look at areas like Keiyo and Marakwet, you will appreciate that Marakwet is marginalised. The fact that Keiyo is better off does not really mean that they are not supposed to benefit from this Fund. In Kericho County, where I come from, areas like Kipkelion, Ainamoi and Sigowet have really been marginalised. There is no way they cannot be included in this Fund. So, as we support the amendment, I would like to call upon this House to look at the Constitution and enforce it to the letter. Given special attention to marginalised areas does not mean that we should only look at the counties. Let us go to lower levels and look at even locations and sub-locations. Let us apply this Fund to those specific areas. In my constituency, you cannot believe that there are areas called Sailo and Ewat where people are carried on sacks because there are no roads. We cannot just talk about counties, let us go to lower levels. During the Committee Stage, we should bring amendments to enforce the Constitution, so that the marginalised areas can be looked at properly. I support that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) should be the appropriate model for actualising the proposal on the Fund. This is because if we leave this to the Ministry, we will not realise the development that we want to see in the marginalised areas. I support the idea that the Government gives conditional grants to the CDF. We can also form an equalisation fund management committee, which will be all-inclusive in order for all of us to be included in it, so that we can manage the proposed Fund properly and make sure that all the people who have been marginalised in this country get development. With those remarks, I beg to support and, again, thank the Mover, hon. Lelelit, for thinking about this proposal. I would like to urge every hon. Member to turn up during the Third Reading of this Bill, so that we can get the necessary threshold to push this amendment through."
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