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"content": "Asante sana, Bi Spika wa Muda. Ninaunga mkono Mswada huu."
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"content": " Thank you. Proceed, Sen. Catherine Mumma."
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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute on this fund. The Constitution of Kenya, 2010, as we all know emphasises human rights. The principles of human rights, particularly equity, as a key principle that ought to be applied in governance in order to give opportunity to every Kenyan and every region to actualise the benefits of within our country. First, I would like to commend the Government, the 13th Parliament and the Fourth Senate, for having operationalized the Equalisation Fund. As you are aware, this fund was intended to be a time-limited fund that was supposed to be operationalized as soon as we began implementing devolution in 2013. However, this fund has never been operationalized. It is so sad that it is one of the tools of equality that was ignored by the Jubilee Government. It is now 13 years. I am glad that at least now we are in the second phase of sharing out this fund. The Equalisation Fund had a particular purpose. It is an affirmative action fund that was intended to be deployed towards fast-tracking the basic development environment in areas that have been marginalised. We have a country that has a lot of disparities, a country where you will have a constituency whose worry about the schools The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "is lunch, possibly dinner, while in another place, children are having to read using the lights of nature, the moon in the night and they do not even have places where they can sit. When this Constitution was developed, this fund was put there deliberately to help handhold those areas that were ignored and treated as though they are not part of Kenya, to also get their people and their children to have a hope in this country. We have been dilly-dallying and arguing around this. I blame Parliament entirely for the delay in the implementation of this fund. That is why I want to commend us that at least we have distributed it now the second time and despite the disparities that have been put in here, I think it is a good way forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, even as we look at the disparities in the manner in which this fund has been distributed, I would want to urge the Senate to actually come up with an oversight tool over this Fund. This is because this fund is supposed to be deployed towards basic services that are also county functions. We need to be able to pinpoint now the second year; when we go to Tana River County of Sen. Mungatana next year, we should be able to say the funds that were deployed under the Equalisation Fund were used to deliver A, B, C, additional to what the county government is doing. We need to be able to review to say if that was the best way in which we would have fast-tracked in terms of this county. Was that the most needy area that received these funds and, thirdly, is this the best way in which this fund should have been used? As we move forward, I would want you to note that water, health, roads, electricity and whatever other infrastructure that is contemplated to be delivered under this fund are county functions. So, we need to be able to have a timetable or a special schedule to monitor the manner in which this fund is actually bringing up the levels of development in a particular county. Eventually, this should also lead to the determination of changed poverty indices and changed parameters that we are using to determine the equitable share in terms of the nationally collected revenue. If we do not do this - and I am throwing a challenge to our Committee on Finance and Budget - we must be able to tell Kenyans the value of Equalisation Fund by clearly demonstrating that this is what it did in Turkana. As a result of deploying these funds for five years, Turkana was able to move from being measured at this level in terms of the poverty index to this other level. I am throwing a challenge to our secretariat, particularly the budget policy offices, to assist us to come up with a tool that can demonstrate the value of the Equalisation Fund. I do not know whether we have resolved, and we need to resolve, this fund was supposed to exist for only 20 years. Now that we have started implementing it, that 20 years I guess was contemplated from the time we operationalized the Constitution 2010. We need to have a deliberate pronouncement as Parliament on when this fund will come to a close. Again, my view would be one of the determinants of whether this fund should close or not should be a determination that we have achieved what the fund hoped to achieve. That is why in my view. We must measure very deliberately how this fund is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "moving us in development, particularly moving the marginalized areas, in the 20 years where the fund is supposed to be. We should be able to demonstrate the value that this fund has brought about, whatever Parliament will be there, might be able to even determine the need to increase it. There is nothing wrong in determining that we can actually take a portion of the national revenue and continue to deploy it towards areas that need to be brought up in order to participate in the development agenda of this country on an equal basis with the others. As I finalize, I will not speak to the detail of what is there. However, I find it curious that a county would be allocated only Kshs31 million or Kshs29 million. I do not know what Kshs29 million will do in terms of real change from marginalisation coming up. I fall in the school of thought that felt maybe we should have just picked a few counties, given them adequate funds to bring their infrastructure to a particular level and then we move to the next and do the same. If we did so, we must be able to say in batch one, we will have the following 10 counties. In the next batch, we will have the following 20 counties and so on. For those who are appropriating or who appropriated these funds, I am disturbed at the figure of Kshs29 million. I believe it is money, but I do not know how Kshs29 million would truthfully assist the areas that are truly marginalised. I would like to demonstrate in one way. If you are going to build a school in the far-flung place of Turkana, for that school to be functional, it requires the physical infrastructure, teachers, security, water, energy and a health facility to be there to support that group. So, if you give them Kshs29 million, how much can they achieve? It means if they were going to use the Equalisation Fund to fast-track facilities that can get children going to school, we will be waiting every year so that a building is done, it lies fallow as we wait for next year's funds to come do the water and then we wait again for the next year to come. However, if we give them enough funds to build a school, put water, do the road infrastructure around that school and do a health facility, then we will have done what this fund was intended to do - to fast track the bringing of those regions to a level where the others are. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would urge us, as leaders, to not be fixated with tearing the little monies that are there so that every county must get a little bit of it. We need to divide these funds in such a way that we can in two years, demonstrate that by deploying these funds in Turkana and Tana River, we have brought real change to the lives of children, women, men and the communities in those far flung places. I, therefore, ask our Committee on Finance and Budget to think through the ideology behind the Equalisation Fund and be innovative enough to help us ensure that the deployment of this fund truly does what it is supposed to do; to fast track that development. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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"content": " Thank you, Senator. Sen. Mundigi Alexander. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Munyi Mundigi",
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"content": "Asante, Bi. Spika wa Muda, kwa kunipa fursa ya kuchangia pesa za Hoja inayoendelea kuhusu marginalised communities, groups na makaunti. Kulingana na mimi Kamati ya Fedha na Bajeti walifanya kazi ya huzuni kwa kaunti zingine. Kenya tuna makaunti 47. Tukiwa hapa, hakuna Seneta mkubwa au mdogo. Hakuna kaunti ndogo au kubwa kwa sababu ikifika mambo ya keki ya Kenya mzima, kila mtu anafaa asherehekee. Wiki jana, tulikuwa tunapitisha mambo ya pesa zitakaoenda kule mashinani ya kaunti 47. Wakati mwingine utapata hii Kamati ya Fedha na Bajeti inatuletea ripoti tupitishe. Hizo ripoti siyo njia inayofaa sababu zitaleta mgawanyiko katika kaunti zingine na kwa sisi, Maseneta. Kwa sababu, pesa kama iko Kenya, hakuna kaunti yeyote haifai kupata hizi pesa. Tumeona kaunti zingine zinapata karibu Shilingi 1 bilioni, zingine Shilingi 50 milioni na zingine Shilingi 20 milioni. Bi. Spika wa Muda, hiyo inamaanisha hizi pesa za marginalised communities zinafaa kila kaunti ipate. Ninashindwa kwa nini Kaunti ya Embu haipati pesa na unapata kaunti ya Kitui, Meru na Tharaka Nithi zinapata pesa. Kaunti ya Embu iko na sub-county nne. Kuna sub-county ya Mbeere South ambayo ingepata pesa kuongezea bajeti inayopelekwa mashinani na gavana. Huko Mbeere South utapata kuna watu wanatembea kilomita 20 au 50 kwa sababu hakuna magari na barabara zimeharibika. Huko hakuna hata maji. Leo asubuhi tulikuwa na Mhe. Waziri wa Maji ambaye niliuliza Kaunti ya Embu itaangaliwa namna gani kuhusu mabwawa ya maji kama kaunti za Tharaka Nithi na Meru. Kuna mabwawa matatu kule Embu, Manyatta, Mbeere North na Runyejes. Tunauliza vile tutapata maji juu ya kilimo chetu ambacho ni muguka. Bajeti inakuja hapa halafu, unakuta kwamba, sisi hatuko kwa hii ripoti. Hakuna kitu Embu imepata. Mwaka jana, kwa hizi pesa za marginalised communities, Embu haikupata. Utapata miradi ya kilimo yanaenda chini kwa sababu ya kukosa maji. Pia miradi ya barabara na hospitali yako nyuma. Pia shule zina shida. Mambo haya yote ni ya kuhuzinisha sana. Yale mambo yanafanyika na watu wanaofanya kazi ya mgao wa pesa kama hizi hawafuatilii njia inayofaa. Kule Mbeere North na Mbeere South, kuna shida nyingi sana. Janga la njaa likija, linafuata Mbeere South na Mbeere North. Hizi pesa zinafaa ziende kusaidia wale watu wajisaidie. Bi. Spika wa Muda, ningetaka kuwaambia Kamati ya Fedha na Bajeti wamegawa hizi pesa kwa njia haileweki, ni njia iko na mapendeleo na iko na mrengo hauleweki. Wamefanya jambo la kuhuzunisha kama Embu haiko katika hazina hii ya uwasa wa mgao wa pesa. Ninakumbuka mwaka jana sikupitisha pesa hizi. Kama hii Kamati haitafanya yale yanayofaa, inafaa kutimuliwa na ivunjwe ili tupate ile Kamati itasaidia kaunti zote. Pesa zinakuja na zingine ni msaada kutoka nchi za ng’ambo au ni sisi tunalipa. Ni afadhali kila kaunti ipate pesa kulingana na vile inafaa. Kaunti nyingi za hizo"
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"content": "marginalised communities"
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"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Sen. Munyi Mundigi",
"speaker_title": "",
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"content": "zilipata bajeti kubwa kutoka kwa zile pesa zinazofaa kwenda kwa makaunti. Sitaki kuzitaja lakini, zimepata pesa nyingi. Tukienda kufanya oversight, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "unapata hakuna kitu kaunti zingine zinafanya. Kaunti zinajaribu kutoka chini mpaka juu, unapata hazipewi pesa kulingana vile inafaa. Bi. Spika wa Muda, haya ni mambo ya kuhuzinisha sana. Utapata hoja italetwa Bunge na tuipinge kwa sababu italeta shida ya vyama na mambo mengine. Mambo kama haya yatafanya watu wakosane. Hata mwaka jana, nilisema sitaunga mkono, tuliambiwa tuandike barua kwa wale watu wanahusika na mgao wa pesa hizi. Niliongea na gavana na akaandika kila kitu. Lakini, siku ya leo, Kaunti ya Embu haikua kwa hii ripoti. Kuna kaunti 44 zile zimepata pesa. Ningeomba wakati mwingine, Embu iangaliwe na ipate pesa kutoka kwa hazina hii. Ningependa kusema, hata kama ni nani atakuja kuniambia niunge mkono hii, tukienda kupiga kura, hii nitapinga. Kwa hivyo, ninapinga huu Mswada."
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