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    "id": 1019557,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1019557/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
        "slug": "wilberforce-ojiambo-oundo-2"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for example, my county, Busia County in the Financial Year 2016/2017 only afforded to collect about Kshs256 million of locally generated revenue. That is what has been recorded in the books. In 2017/2018, they only collected Kshs276 million. In 2018/2019, the figure cannot even be reconciled because no one knows where all the revenue went to. It is, indeed, interesting and funny. Yes, there is no requirement that every taxpayer must get an equal amount of services. But honestly speaking, it beats all logic to expect a trader in Funyula Market, Sio Port Market and Ganga Market to pay the daily levies yet receive no services at all. There is no water. There are no toilets in those markets. There is no electricity and no solar lighting. It is important that county governments become accountable to the people who elected them, the people they serve and the people who pay taxes."
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