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    "id": 886716,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "and which constituency or community supported which party or government, then you have your rights anchored in this law, so that you always get the same shares as any other part of the county. It also takes into account marginalized parts. Sometimes we think that when you come from a county, the whole county is at the same level, which is not true. Within the county, there are areas which are more marginalized than others. Therefore, when this money is being shared, there must be some way of taking that into account. I do not know whether the Bill addresses that, so far, because it just talks of marginalized counties. That should be in the formula which is developed by the Commission, which talks of equitable but not equal. Madam Temporary Speaker, the problem we had with the first version of this Bill was the involvement of the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) in execution of the works but in this case it is very clear, and we need to quickly pass this Bill so that from the next financial year, the county governments have a very clear way of making sure that whatever we allocate from here does not become a preserve of the executive to reward and punish people taking into account that the governor, who is the head of the county government is an elected person. So, there is that conflict that comes indirectly if you give that person all the powers to decide where to take development. More often than not, the political inclination will come in and some areas will be favoured more than others. This should also be extended to all other sharing of resources within that county. There must be fairness in the way we are sharing resources even when it comes to employment, because employment is also a resource because the same monies we allocate from here which are being used to employ people. So, if that sharing is done, also in the same way, then there is that equitable sharing. If not, then we are living at the mercy of one individual who also has his own political ambitions, and political people to reward and that way we will not be fair. Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Committee for coming up with this Bill. I hope that once we pass it, we will see it being implemented on the ground and have a more equitable distribution of the resources which we share from here."
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