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"content": "Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank you for being understanding and using your discretion to reduce the time to enable us to contribute. Given that I have three minutes, I just want to say that I support the Bill. Talking about the Equalisation Fund, up to date, this Fund has not been utilised. The framers of our Constitution had reasons to include hat clause. Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 is what created unequal development in Kenya. This Constitution was trying to bring the counties that are not well developed at par with others. We want to appeal to the authorities and more so to the National Treasury to ensure that these funds are utilised before the end of this parliamentary term. Second, is about the conditional allocations. Youth polytechnics are one of the institutions that have been defeated from the conditional allocations. Gauging from the results of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) last year, the number of students that will join public and private universities is lower compared to the previous years. This means that majority of them will have to join middle level colleges. One of the institutions that will offer space for those students will be polytechnics. Because those funds will go to county governments since polytechnics are devolved, I want to appeal to them to use those funds to develop polytechnics and even start others. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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