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"content": "The other critical service that these monies will support are health facilities. Healthcare is critical. Some of the basic services spelt here for support are the major services that our people demanded to be devolved. Therefore, I support this because health facilities will be improved if not expanded. With this little money, we hope those who are going use it will ensure that our people have essential services in health facilities."
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"content": "Another critical service that is spelt out here to be used with funds that will be appropriated is electricity. I still want to go back to my constituency which is Ndhiwa. Our people still do not have access to electricity. Just the other month, the President launched the Last Mile Connectivity Project in my constituency. If you can remember, I asked the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum to confirm and reassure me as somebody from Ndhiwa Constituency that the launch will translate into our people getting electricity in the Last Mile Connectivity Project."
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"content": "One year ago on this same Floor, I raised the issue of faulty transformers in my constituency and county. Therefore, I am happy that these money will help to improve access to electricity for my people in Homa Bay County, particularly in Ndhiwa Constituency where I come from. 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": "There are faulty transformers in that constituency. There is an inventory we were given by the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum in this House. There is a promise that the Cabinet Secretary made that those transformers were going to be replaced. However, up to now, even the inventory of the specific transformers that the Cabinet Secretary spelt out that would be replaced in that year, are still not working."
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"content": "Half of my constituency is in darkness. With the launch of the Last Mile Connectivity Project, I am looking forward that something will be done. I am happy that the amount of money that has been given in the Equalisation Fund will support provision of electricity, not only in my constituency, but other constituencies as well as spelt out. It will also help in improvement of roads. We keep on saying that our people should grow themselves, but it is not easy for them to so so when there are no roads in areas they come from. It is now over 60 years after getting Independence. We should not continue having some areas with no roads like in my constituency. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Bill, the money that will be appropriated will lead to equity and equality in provision of services across the country. I am happy that it is specific about water, roads, healthcare and electricity. The money might not be adequate, but let us take this for now and improve on it in the coming years. I support."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Ogola. Proceed, Sen. Mariam Omar."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also rise to support the Bill, the Equalization Fund Appropriation Bill (Senate Bills No.7 of 2025)."
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"content": "The Equalisation Fund is established under Article 204 of the Constitution. The figure of this fund is supposed to be 0.5 per cent of nationally collected revenue. The purpose of the fund is to reduce or to eradicate inequality in the counties and to ensure equitable access to service delivery. These services are water, roads, electricity and health. To use the Equalisation Fund, we require a framework and that is why we need this Bill to be in place. Previously, one could not access the fund without the framework. So, this is the one of the frameworks that is needed. Many projects were done under Equalization Fund in 2018 and 2019. They are about 352 projects and they were completed."
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"content": "My County, Mandera County, has been given almost Kshs1.2 billion. The breakdown is as follows: Banisa Kshs157 million; Lafey Kshs247 million; Mandera East Kshs209 million; Mandera North Kshs231 million; Mandera South Kshs227 million; and, Mandera West Kshs157 million. If this money, which is almost Kshs1.2 billion, is utilized properly, then we will not have issues of water, health facilities and electricity."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, 60 years after Independence, Mandera County still does not have roads. The Equalisation Fund has not been implemented since its establishment 13 years ago. There is redundancy in the way they have been giving out this money because they have been giving it in portions. 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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