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    "id": 729954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "up with programmes that will hasten development in Baringo County. Some parts of our county are very remote. We needed to hasten development in these areas, so that they are at par with the other parts of the country. It is not fair that we are denied the Equalisation Fund because of kilometres of tarmac. There are many other factors that would have been considered, for example, unemployment and lack of schools like we have in Baringo County. The money we have been denied would have been used to enhance development in the county. Some money has been allocated to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). That institution has been crying foul for a long time now. It claims that it does not have office space. I am glad IPOA has been given money even though it is not the exact amount it had requested. The money will help IPOA to get office space which they very much need in order to carry out their activities effectively. It will be even easier for them to open branches in other parts of the country, so that they are not only located in Nairobi. It will help them to do their work, which I feel is very sensitive because they have to curb abuse by police officers while on duty. The other thing is devolution. It is high time county governments were ordered to show the amount of money they collect within their counties. We focus more on national collections and forget the collections from counties. Such money should be factored in the Budget. As it is now, we do not know how much county governments collect and what they do with that money. With those few remarks, I support."
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