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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you, very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me time to also make my contribution. At the outset, I support the Bill because I have seen that it is going to address the many problems that we are having in our counties. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when Murang’a County Government was a county council, it used to have a lot of money. It also used to have many programmes. However, currently, even within our own constituencies, nothing is happening in the county. Cess is collected manually but we do not know how it is banked. Sometimes, there are no receipts and there is no accountability. It is through this method of revenue collection that we have seen the national Government infrastructure destroyed. This is because you find the national Government has done a very good road then they leave cess collection to the county government and it is from there that a problem develops. People who are responsible for collecting cess are not responsible enough. They allow 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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