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    "id": 797150,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwakuwona",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwashako Mwakuwona",
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    "content": "Two things I would like to say before I end my contribution is first, 20 years is the period mentioned in the Constitution. That was the period the Equalisation Fund is to be with us for. It will be so naïve of this House to trash a policy that was drafted in February 2013 by one Kenyan, Mr. Micah Cheserem, who is renown as the Chairman of the CRA and in his wisdom came up with these 14 counties. We cannot, therefore, imagine and pretend that we do not know that Taita Taveta, Lamu, Turkana and North Eastern counties are marginalised. We should not sit here today and imagine that we need to bring in Kiambu, Mbita and others. Yesterday, the President gave a very good Speech when he talked about handshakes. The other counties need to extend the hand of friendship to the 14 counties because we have been marginalised in this country for many years. In my county, we only have two kilometres of road, yet this afternoon I am hearing Members talking of sub-locations that are in some counties that we all know are privileged. We must be serious as a country. We must choose to mend fences so that the counties that are mentioned in the first policy continue for the next 20 years, if we are to achieve any meaningful reconciliation in this country."
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