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    "content": "for the Government to come and help you. You should not wait for the Government to help you to dig even your own shamba. If you have a two-acre farm, you can dig it and grow food. We should not wait for the Government to give us food. That must not be the notion. That is not what this Bill should be about. It should be encouraging individuals to supply what they can to themselves. The idea of waiting for the Government to do everything, including your own things that you can do for yourselves, should not be the case. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, regarding the Equalisation Fund, there is a sense in which the National Assembly is correct in proposing that the Fund should be focused at the constituency level. We focus on the counties yet the Constitution talks about regions. For example, if you walked along Kenyatta Avenue, Moi Avenue or Kilindini in Mombasa County - and you are told that Mombasa County has areas that should benefit from the Equalization Fund - you would completely refuse, yet there are some constituencies in Mombasa County that are completely poor. They are the ones to be focused on in as far as the Equalisation Fund is concerned. In Nyeri County, for example, out of six constituencies, I would, probably, say that five of them do not deserve the Equalization Fund. If some people will be given money for being marginalized and disadvantaged, then Kieni Constituency in Nyeri must get its equal share of the Equalisation Fund. This is because it is no better than any other marginalized places in this country. When you focus on just counties, then Nairobi County should not benefit from the Equalisation Fund but considering Kibera and other areas, maybe they deserve some money. What I do not agree---"
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