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    "id": 802314,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/802314/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyoro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "However, I have to say that there is a fallacy we peddle every time we make the Budget – the fallacy of marginalisation – which looks like it is true. There is the fallacy that the closer you are to Nairobi, the more developed you are. We tend to regard areas that are furthest from Nairobi worse off, however rich they are than Murang’a and neighbouring counties like Mwea and Kajiado. We are considered to be well off. In Kiharu, where I come from, there are areas which are poorer than the poorest parts of, for example, Turkana County. This is a fallacy we are going to deal with in future, so that we can look at the voters of this country and the taxpayers as people and not more as kilometres. I am also basing my argument on the NG-CDF allocation. Kiharu Constituency has over 120,000 registered voters. However, we are given the same amount of money as so many other constituencies with much smaller populations. This kind of skewed allocation of resources will be dealt with in future, so that large constituencies can be considered to benefit from the Equalisation Fund."
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