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    "content": "at 71 per cent. I am from the ground and when I asked them to give me the evidence, they said that there are only 300 nursery and primary schools combined and yet we have 600 primary schools alone and over 800 nursery schools. It means, therefore, that the computation for any budget at the national level may be erroneous. If the figures you are using are extremely historical like the ones I discovered today, then the counties may not be getting the attention that they require. Before any activity is budgeted for, let us be able to know the actual calculation in order to know the true position of each of these activities. When we talk about agriculture, many people have talked about it because it is the backbone of the Republic of Kenya. But you find that a lot of money is spent at the national level as opposed to the total amount of money spent in the counties on that same activity. When you talk about parastatals in the agricultural sector like the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), what is it doing in Nairobi? There is no single farm of maize or beans or of wheat in Nairobi. Ideally, you would expect that kind of attention to be given in the area where we have a lot of these activities on going. What is the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) doing in Nairobi and yet there are no farms in Nairobi? But we are voting funds for the same institution at the national Government level. When these budgets are being done, we should look at the activities seriously. Lastly, I heard my colleagues talking about the Equalisation Fund and everybody swallows saliva when they talk about the Equalisation Fund. They say that every county is marginalized. Let me read Article 204 in the Constitution:- The national government shall use the Equalisation Fund only to provide for basic services. This includes water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalised areas to the extent necessary to bring equity. When everybody comes here to talk about marginalisation, I do not know what that means."
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