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    "id": 713348,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Equalization Fund was set up under Article 204 of the Constitution. This Senate engaged in the process of identifying 14 counties; the dispossessed of the dispossessed and the marginalized of the marginalized. They include Mandera, Wajir, Kitui, Tana River and Kilifi counties, where there is poverty beyond believe. We consulted with Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and agreed. This is a clear case of indictment of the Houses of Parliament for allowing themselves to be captured by the Executive and the National Assembly hijacking the role of this Senate. What we have now is not an Equalization Fund as envisaged under the Constitution, because the National Assembly has sat and decided that every constituency will have a share of the Equalization Fund. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope that Members of the Senate will not pass the Bill at Order No.13 that tries to sanitize that irrational decision. We may have a pocket of poverty in Kiambu, but it is born out of greed and neglect; it is not because of historical injustices. We are addressing historical injustices. Could the Chairperson tell us whether the Committee that he chairs can recommend to the Senate to encourage the Speaker of this House to lead the Senate, like he has done before, to go to the Supreme Court to challenge the irrational decision in the manner in which the Equalization Fund is being managed? I have heard roadside pronouncements from the Executive in rallies that they will send Equalization Fund to do a particular project in a particular place. That is not the way to go. Could the Chairperson clarify?"
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