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    "id": 796989,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a beneficiary of this Fund courtesy of the 2010 Constitution. It is not because of the whims of those in power. Article 204 of the Constitution is very clear. Let us call a spade, a spade. Let us read the Constitution. For those who have not read it, if you may allow me, Hon. Deputy Speaker, Article 204(2) reads: “The national government shall use the Equalisation Fund only to provide basic services including water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalised areas to the extent necessary to bring the quality of those services in those areas to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation, so far as possible.” The Constitution is in black and white. Some of us participated in the making of this Constitution, not because we loved all the provisions in it. Some of us supported it one, because of Equalisation Fund two, because of devolution and three, because of the Kadhis Courts. Those are the three things that even made me, for the first time in the history of Kenya, go to a different side, opposing Hon. William Ruto’s team that opposed the Constitution. That was the only time I left William Ruto. I left him on principle. It is very sad; this Equalisation Fund has a time frame of 20 years. Eight years have so far lapsed and there is nothing to show on the ground for these eight years. They are gone and we only have 12 years left. The National Treasury must tell us where the money allocated for equalisation is kept. In fact, I want to challenge the Cabinet Secretary (CS) Treasury to tell this House and the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee where the office the Equalisation Fund Advisory Board Secretariat is. We want to know its physical address. They are proposing to have Kshs485 million for administration. They have spent Kshs485 million yet there is no physical address for the Equalisation Fund Advisory Board Secretariat. This House must play its duty to protect."
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