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    "id": 797078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill (National Assembly Bill No.16 of 2018) be now read a Second Time. Since I had said much as I moved the Motion on the Report, I do not want to repeat myself. It is important to just mention one more thing before I ask Hon. Naisula Lesuuda to second. There have been questions, as you heard in the contributions of Members, on the office of the administrator. The Leader of the Majority Party spoke about the physical location of the office of the administrator of this Fund and the accountability of this office in terms of what they are doing with the Fund. As we mentioned, this is money that has already been expended because we are talking about money that we had appropriated in the last financial year. The Equalisation Fund is managed by people who are employed by the Government. I want to assure the House that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is seized of this matter. We have been interacting with the National Treasury to not just know the physical location of the administrator of the Equalisation Fund, but to know what exactly the money that is appropriated for Recurrent Expenditure is utilised for. If Kshs400 billion was used to construct a dam in Marsabit or Moyale, it would change the lives of the people living there in a much better way than spending it in big offices in Nairobi on flowers and very expensive cups of tea."
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