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MPs have started a fresh bid to wrest control of the administration of the multibillion-shilling Equalisation Fund from the National Treasury.

Through Tiaty MP Kasait Kamket, the National Assembly has republished the Equalisation Fund Bill, 2019 that lapsed with the end of the last session of the House.

“The enactment of the Bill will reduce the current bureaucratic red-tape that exists with regards to the administration of the Fund currently domiciled in the National Treasury,” Mr Kamket said in the Bills explanatory memorandum.

Up to 246 MPs had voted to approve the Equalisation Fund Bill, 2015 seeking to amend Article 204 of the Constitution to remove the fund from the national government’s management to constituencies.

The Kamket Bill proposes the establishment of Local Equalisation Fund Committees in each ward in marginalised areas as determined by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) pursuant to Article 216 of the Constitution.