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    "id": 938033,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938033/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": "Due to lack of a board there has been a major scandal, just like what happened with the National Youth Service (NYS). Why I talk about a major scandal is that we are being informed that already Kshs1 billion has been used on operations to oversee non-existent projects and money that has not been sent to the respective counties that are supposed to benefit from the Equalisation Fund. A sum of Kshs1 billion is not chicken change. It would have been used to build dams. I am talking of the small water pans that go at Kshs100,000 each. It would have been used to build 10,000 water pans that would reduce pastures and water related conflicts in our regions. Hon. Kamket would not be having problems with Hon. Kamuren if we had used the Equalisation Fund properly. That is why Hon. Kamket decided to bring this Bill so that we can operationalise this Fund to uplift the life of our people. Our regions are being blamed for cattle rustling. Cattle rustling is a crime that has been sanitised by giving it a better name but it is a capital offence that involves rape, murder and robbery with violence. If you live in those regions, sometimes your cows are stolen and you are left with nothing else to depend on: no food on the table, no clothes to wear, no money for paying school fees for your children or settle medical bills for your patients. So, such people sometimes have to go for cattle rustling. That is how sometimes marginalisation causes cattle rustling. If we had enough infrastructure and water, we would not be talking of cattle rustling in those regions. Hon. Kamket and Hon. Kamuren could have been the best of friends. We need this Fund to be operationalised so that our people can also be ‘jumpstarted’ economically. Our people are tired of seeking favours from the Government. We literally become beggars in times of drought. We are tired of begging. Our country is not a severe desert like Libya and Qatar, but Libya and Qatar feed their own people. With enough infrastructure and irrigation, our people will become self-sufficient. That will only come about with the operationalisation of the Equalisation Fund."
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