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    "id": 469136,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was talking about the Equalization Fund and pleading that when the Committee on Devolution and Committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs sit finally, as directed by the Speaker, I hope that they will look at the criteria which has been shown, which identifies actually 20 counties which are marginalized. But because the Chair says that the funds are less, he has to cut them to 14. If that is allowed to happen, it will mean that counties like Bomet, Baringo, Kitui, Homa Bay and others which have already been identified as marginalized will be marginalized further for another 20 years, because they will miss out on this Fund. So, I am appealing that even as we wait for the report of the joint Committees, we should kindly look at the counties that have been left out after being identified as marginalized in accordance with Article 204 of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to end by saying that it is so important that we be transparent and approach these issues in a bipartisan manner. Where funds are to be given to a county, we want it to be clearly shown which county it is, what services and how much money. But preferably, this Senate should insist that the national Government takes over this responsibility and the total amount of money that is to be shared among counties is shared without deducting other funds, particularly what they are calling conditional allocation. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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