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    "id": 1019555,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1019555/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the onset, I support the spirit of the Bill even though there are areas that require further considerations and amendments. Generally, in any jurisdiction, any local authority or any organ has two sources of revenue; transfers from the national Government and locally generated revenue. Before devolution, we had local authorities that for all purposes and intent used to collect adequate locally generated revenue to enable them undertake their various services and programs. Of course, it has always been a paradox, a cause of worry and source of amusement that after devolution, the so-called counties are now unable to collect sufficient revenue to fund their activities and programs. Indeed, this is feeling amongst many intellectuals and commentators that county governments together with their governors felt that devolution was a license to receive and not to generate. When we were discussing devolution, there was a feeling that county governments are more or less going to become like an economic bloc that would spur economic development, growth and expansion. That has not happened, to an extent that most county governments are mere net receivers and little producers at all."
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