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    "id": 1019567,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our biggest problem on revenue collection by the county governments is oversight. The money is collected, but there are cases of expenditure at source. When you have expenditure at source, it makes it very difficult for institutions which collect the money to budget for it and have effective use of the money. A case in point is hospitals. Every hospital collects some money, but instead of the money getting used and budgeted for at the hospital, it is sent to the county treasuries. The county government might not use the money for buying drugs and buying food for patients because it is not a priority. So they might use it for other things. In essence, that is not what it is meant to do. For instance, in my place, Endebess, we have forests and blocks of rocks, where lorries go to collect building materials. The cess is collected at Endebess, but the county government does not plough back the cess to make sure that the roads are passable. As we speak, the roads are impassable in some of those areas. What destroys the roads are the lorries that go there to collect stones for construction works. But the county government does not plough back the money to repair roads in those areas."
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