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    "id": 1016994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "evaded was Kshs479 million resulting from undeclared volumes and stamp usage. The action taken is directors have been charged in court. The case is at Makadara, and the case file is indicated there. Assessment and demand of taxes done, Kshs134 million conceded and Kshs90 million paid; balance appealed. Two Cousins Distillers and Africa Spirits have the details. The details for Keroche Breweries are there as well. On the measures that have been taken to ensure that all importers of such consignment pay necessary taxes, the authority has put in place several measures as indicated in the document. The document is very comprehensive. If I read it all we will sit here and we have much more pressing matters. Therefore, I will just ask the Hon. Kajwang' to go through the details that have been provided. For Hon. Owen Baya’s request regarding disbursement of equalisation fund, these were the responses: In terms of unutilised funds for the period 2015-2020. Disbursement of funds made from the Equalisation Fund to date is based on the first policy on marginalisation which identified 14 counties. The policy also recommended the criterion for sharing the revenue among the 14 counties. Therefore, in Financial Year 2014/2015 Kshs400 million was disbursed, in Financial Year 2015/2016 Kshs6 billion, Financial Year 2016/2017Kshs 6 billion bringing the total to Kshs12,400,000,000. The total amount expended for project implementation since inception of the equalisation fund is only Kshs2 billion. This means that there is a balance of Kshs9.9 billion that is yet to be expended. Why has the National Treasury failed to disburse the Equalisation Fund? The National Treasury has not been able to disburse the funds due to High Court ruling that quashed the guidelines on administration of the Equalisation Fund. When is the National Treasury expected to disburse the next disbursement? I think the long and short of the answer there is that, they are working on regulations as per the requirements of the court order. Thank you Hon. Speaker, I have summarised as much as I could."
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