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    "id": 704366,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mositet",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 608,
        "legal_name": "Peter Korinko Mositet",
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    "content": "For this Equalisation Fund, it cannot be done any better other than making sure that the public participates in identifying those areas within their counties and wards even if we are talking of constituencies so that those areas which have been marginalized can be identified and the funds utilized properly. This Bill says that they need to transfer the funds so that they can be used through the constituencies which are marginalized. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we wanted to treat those areas which are purely marginalized, the best they should have talked of is wards so that within the wards, we can say a particular ward, say in Kajiado County or Makueni or Kiambu where we have an area called Ndeiya, that area requires to be brought to the level of development just like any other developed area in the country. So, with my all energies, I oppose this Bill. On the other hand, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the people who went round to identify the counties which are marginalized and came up with a number of 14, the criteria they were using is yet to be seen whether they captured all the marginalized areas. As I stand here, some of the areas in my county are the most marginalized in this country. Up to date, there are some people who have never seen a cup or a sufuria . We have some areas which are marginalized such that when they are told we go enter a vehicle, one must be introduced that we are going to have something called a car and it is going to pass here and this is how you are going to enter it. We do not have roads in those areas. Up to now, we have areas that have no water. The people of Oltiaseka in Kajiado County are suffering. In fact, I had to call the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tana Athi Water Services Board and told him if nothing is done, those people may die for lack of water. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you go to the areas of Magadi and Mosiro, the reason we lost the seat of Mosiro Ward to the Opposition is because the people feel they have been marginalized for so long such that when we promise them that we are going to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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