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    "id": 979051,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979051/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13317,
        "legal_name": "Moses Nguchine Kirima",
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    "content": "To conclude my remarks, we have this Universal Service Fund which is supposed to be like the Equalisation Fund to marginalised areas. It is uttermost surprise to some of us who come from constituencies like Central Imenti. This is an interesting constituency because it starts at the forest side and goes down to Tharaka, which borders Kitui. It is one of the most remote parts of the constituency. People have no cash crops. They have nothing to rely on. In dry seasons, they beg. They are supplied with relief food, but when it comes to the Equalisation Fund, we are denied. When it comes to identifying schools to be assisted through the Universal Fund, we are denied the funds because Meru is generally branded a place with no problems. People in some areas rely on relief food and students cannot be maintained in school throughout the year because of dry seasons. We are praying that when it comes to the consideration of the Universal Service Fund which assists public schools through infrastructural systems to enhance education in marginalised areas, we should be considered. Meru, especially Tigania, part of Igembe North and the lower part of Central Imenti, should be considered. I do not know why nobody has ever stated that we are not the same. Even though we are serving one constituency, we have different climatic zones."
}