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    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and his Vice-Chair. From the outset, let me say I have been a mayor and I think one thing that Kenyans should know is that this locally collected revenue today is pocket money of the Government chiefs. In the wisdom of the Senate and the drafters of this Bill, we should have a system, as they say, that is simple, transparent and easy. When you look at it from 2013 when county governments came to play, the locally collected revenue went up. They started taxing more than what the local authorities used to do. However, when it comes to declaration, very little is declared. When you go to the villages, everything has gone up for the mama mbogas, the boda bodas, taxis, and the single permit businesses. Where does this money go? This Bill is going to shed light on who is who. How are they colleting the money? Sometimes, I do not blame the governors because there are no structures or guidelines on how they are going to spend money. The other day I was just laughing when the governors were saying that they were going to suspend services. If they cannot provide these services when they have money and they do not tell us how they used the locally collected revenue, then it is ironical for them to say they will suspend services. I have seen the players who will be in it. I think with the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, CRA, and KRA, it will be an effective system. I remember some time back during the days of local authorities, we used to have a system called live-forms. It used to be very effective because it gave local authorities guidelines on how to use money, spend and pay taxes. I am sure in this day and age, this system should be more effective than it was then. Now that I have seen Hon. Mbadi has gone out, I want to tell him that in heaven, all the angels were angels until the devil decided to become a devil. If your mentality is that of the MCA and you do not want to change, you would still remain an MCA. One time I was being looked for by police and I hid everywhere. Now I do not see how someone being looked for by police directs the police to pick him from where he is and he is picked he starts crying. That does not make sense. I will give my own example. When I went to Mavoko in 2008, the whole council was collecting a Kshs130 million per year. I introduced revenue enhancement method in that council and in the first year of 2008/2009, we managed to collect The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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