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    "id": 1019598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. Right from the outset, I support these amendments. Just like one of the Members has already said, the Constitution envisaged different ways in which counties could generate revenues. One of the ways, indeed, was by way of taxation or collecting revenue. However, more and more, we have seen counties totally dependent on the funds that they are getting from the national Government because they are not able to generate enough revenue from their collections. There is a big discrepancy between what is reported as having been collected and what is actually collected. This is basically because of corruption. If you look at one area of collection of revenue, for example, in terms of parking fees, many times you will park and when you are asked for money, you will probably just say that you do not have enough money. Before you even finish saying that you do not have enough money, the statement that will come from the revenue collector will be: “Leta tu hiyo.” When you have so many “leta tu hiyos” in a day, it will amount to a huge sum of money which goes into the pockets of the revenue collectors. Therefore, at the end of the day, what is actually reported as having been collected is much less than what was actually collected. If revenue is going to be the source of tears for Members of Parliament, we must sort out this issue of revenue. I would like to thank Sen. (Dr.) Zani for coming up with this amendment because it is going to be one of the ways in which we are going to help Members of Parliament and stop them from crying. It was disheartening for me to watch a colleague teacher, a renowned playwriter, shed tears because of the county revenue sharing stalemate. If these tears can be sorted out by good collection of revenue so that counties have enough to spend on other important and essential issues for the"
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