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    "id": 455913,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "rest of Kenyans. Facilities and infrastructure in those areas are not there. Roads are not there. In my constituency, about 50 polling stations are unreachable by road. You have to carry all the voting materials on your head because there are no infrastructural facilities. Imagine, 50 years after Independence that is happening! That is why we say that the Equalization Fund will go a long way in bringing those areas at par with other areas in the country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we talk about human resource, right now in the counties when positions are advertised, we do not get people from the local areas to fill up the positions. They are not there. The Fund will go a long way in uplifting education standards in the areas. Children in secondary schools and universities will get sponsorship. Even the money that we get through Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is not enough to pay school fees and sponsor children in colleges. If this Fund is given to the counties, we will be able to develop our human resource so that in five or ten years to come, we will be equipped to enable us compete with other areas. The Chair can remember that in the Government of former President Daniel Moi, there was what we called quotas, which were used in education. A certain quota was given to those marginalized areas. The equalization system was being practised, but in different format. We are saying that this amendment will go a long way in formalizing these pockets of equalization system that was being practised in education, agriculture, livestock and various sectors. We want to make certain amendments during the Third Reading so that we increase this Fund from 0.5 per cent to 1.0 per cent because we know it will go a long way in helping these areas develop and move faster. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should ask for support from other colleagues who do not come from marginalized areas during the Third Reading. We should be able to marshal the two-thirds majority in order to move this Bill and pass it so that we assist our communities who suffer. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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