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    "id": 938052,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": "The understanding I have of marginalisation is how long you travel to get to a health centre. How long do you walk to a watering point? Why has it been so? When I left my office in the morning, I wrote a letter to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) asking them to investigate the only single project that was implemented through the Equalisation Fund. It was given to a ministry that has a lot of money and a lot of other things to do. They did not care. They tendered. The money was paid and the project died. Bringing such a board to ensure that these monies are not only well-utilised but prioritised for areas that are in need is timely. I thank the Member for bringing this. Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 might look different to everybody. I represent a constituency where 5,000 men were massacred in two days in 1984 - for those who have heard of the Wagalla Massacre. Nobody talked about it. Currently, this marginalisation still continues because it is not necessarily setting funds aside. It is operating and using Government force with impunity to punish and marginalise people. If you recall just the other day, schools in settlements and towns in Tana River that have been there for 20 years were demolished. I am told that a child who has finished school has gone for retirement. You are now demolishing that school and saying it is an illegality. It is simply because the person you have in office that day determines what is illegal and legal. We have taken the concept of marginalisation too far. We cannot narrow it down to resource allocation alone. It has to be perception matters. We have to view Kenya as a country that must move together not only in terms of resources, but also respect those who are less fortunate. It is a reality that these funds are currently stacked and there are no modalities of allocating them. If we let the CRA do what it does best, it will be so diluted that we will not have the reasons which are envisaged in the Constitution. All this money should serve that purpose. That is why we must have conditions for its implementation. This will come after the Bill will be passed."
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