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    "id": 894505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwashako Mwakuwona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to bring a petition on behalf of Taita Taveta residents, on the issue of marginalised areas accessing resources from the Equalisation Fund. This was a petition which was submitted in the last Session and it expired, so I am resubmitting it. I, the undersigned, on behalf of residents of Taita Taveta County, draw the attention of this House to the following: THAT, Article 204 of the Constitution establishes the Equalisation Fund which provides that 0.5 per cent of all the revenue collected by the national Government each year, calculated on the basis of the most recent audited accounts, to provide for services that include water, road, health and electricity to marginalised areas; THAT, in the second policy and criteria for sharing revenue among marginalised areas, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) has dropped drought as one of the key indicators of measuring access to the Equalisation Fund by counties, a decision which is likely to impact negatively on the beneficiary counties such as Taita Taveta whose inclusion as a beneficiary was arrived at due to the undeveloped road network among other factors; THAT, the net effect of dropping undeveloped road network as an indicator for accessing the Equalisation Fund will lead to de-gazettement of beneficiary counties such as Taita Taveta, despite the area having poor or no road network for economic prosperity and is also in contravention of Article 204(2); THAT, the claim by CRA that 78.2 per cent of households in Kishushe Sub-Location in Wundanyi Constituency have access to safe drinking water, is untrue as the said area has the worst access to safe drinking water in the country, hence casting doubt on the authenticity of the data and parameters used to determine marginalised areas in the second policy and criteria for sharing revenue among marginalised areas; THAT, public participation done by the CRA in coming up with the second marginalisation policy was inadequate as the key stakeholders in the county of Taita Taveta and other counties in the first policy were never involved. Further, the use of school attendance rates by the CRA as an indicator of marginalisation without taking into account dismal performance in the national examinations in the county occasioned by poverty and undeveloped school The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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