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    "id": 565985,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, to the best of my understanding, the best course of action would have been for the CRA to propose the criteria, for instance, in terms of population, land or geographical area and allocate the amount each should get. It should then recommend to the Senate and the Senate comes up with the final formula. That formula should be provided as a Schedule in this Bill and it is for us to discuss that. This has major implications. I have done calculations which show that, indeed, the way we have been giving money to the respective counties has been very unfair. I have made effort to compare, for instance, the two forms of registers that we have namely, the Population Census, 2009 and the Voter Register. When I compare those two forms of data, I see big disparities particularly when you divide revenue. For instance, if you take the revenue going to Kisumu County and divide it with population as given in the Population Census, 2009, you will see the ratio and the amount of money that goes to a person in Kisumu. If you do such a division, you will see that, indeed, you need a representation---"
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