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    "id": 719764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "which is supposed to benefit from the Equalisation Fund but to date, we have not received a single cent of that money. Who is spending the Equalisation Fund money? If this money has not been spent, why is it lying in the national coffers while the particular counties that are supposed to benefit continue to suffer? Narok, Turkana, Wajir and Garisa counties are suffering. Sometimes I wonder because among the people who are supposed to benefit from this money is the Leader of the Majority Party. I do not know if he is so selfish that he only looks at the things that benefit him personally. He cannot even fight for this one. We are the beneficiaries of this money. Every year, somebody tells us to go to his office to discuss how to use the money from the Equalisation Fund. The other day, they brought us a list of projects they said they had allocated the Equalisation Fund money. We declined because they told us that they wanted to use the share for Narok County to build some road in town. In Turkana County, they wanted to build a certain big dam. That is not equalisation. Building a good road in Narok Town is not equalisation. We do not use that road. Everybody from Nyanza and Bomet counties use it. We want the money to benefit people in the areas we need to equalize in terms of health, roads and water services. These are the areas where this money was meant to be utilized. However, somebody is just playing some games. I do not know if it is the Jubilee Government, which made so many promises to the people but the money is not there. Therefore, they want to utilize the Equalisation Fund to fulfil the promises they made to the people. We want to tell them that the Equalisation Fund should be spent in areas which have been marginalised. We cannot allow it. Even if you force it, some of us will move to court to stop the national Government from using the money on projects other than those it is meant for. We want the Equalisation Fund to be released before March. We want the people to benefit from this money. We have seen that they have allocated another Kshs7 billion. We do not know where the previous Kshs7 billion and the other Kshs7 billion or Kshs12 is. The Equalisation Fund is a creation of the Constitution. Disbursement of these monies should not be at the mercy of the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury. I am happy that the Leader of the Majority Party is back. Talk about this money because it is supposed to benefit the people of Garissa, Narok and Turkana. You should not just be doing things which do not benefit our people. There is also the issue of equitable shares and conditional grants allocation to the counties. We want the conditional grants to specifically go to the areas that have been specified, especially for rehabilitation of polytechnics. For example, in my constituency we do not have one. If this money was to be directed to the polytechnics, our people would benefit. Lastly, on the issue of leasing equipment, I do not think it is a good idea."
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