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    "id": 797109,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill should have been brought here earlier in the financial year. The Equalisation Fund means exactly that; to equalise development in this country. Most of the counties that have been mentioned here get very little funds as county governments. This is money which is meant to bring development to these areas. From the time the Constitution was promulgated, if you calculate, it is between seven to eight financial years yet today, we are still discussing the same amount of money that we discussed last year. The money never left the National Treasury for the counties. When the Commission on Revenue Allocation made the first policy, they said it must be reviewed after three years. This first policy the CRA came up with has not yet been implemented in one financial year. We are discussing change of policy without looking at what was in the policy in the first place."
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