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    "id": 796988,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/796988/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Turkana County, from the advent of devolution, it is one of the counties that have received the highest allocation of development funds. Also in this Bill, it is receiving the highest allocation of the Equalisation Fund. Before we changed the allocation formulae for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), constituencies in Turkana County were also receiving the highest allocations, but we and the rest of Kenyans know that there is nothing significant that has happened in Turkana County to change the lives of the people of Turkana. Therefore, it is a challenge to the Members of that county and, indeed, to us as national leaders even as we will be interrogating the marginalisation policy that will be brought by the Commission on Revenue Allocation. As we identify projects, for those of us who will be affected by this fund in the coming financial year, we should identify mega projects like a dam that will provide water to millions of people across the county instead of identifying one small borehole of Kshs5 to Kshs7 million shillings that will only be able to provide water for a limited time to a small locality. Lastly, it is on… I have forgotten. But before you put the Question, Hon. Deputy Speaker, since I will have time to reply now that I have forgotten my last point, let me ask one of the principal beneficiaries of this Fund, the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Aden Duale, Member of Parliament for Garissa Constituency, to second this Bill."
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