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    "id": 1019643,
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    "speaker_name": "Masinga WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me the opportunity to air my views on this important Bill. It is, indeed, a very important Bill and has come at a good time. Revenue collection is a challenge especially in our counties. The eight years of devolution should have been a learning moment for counties with regarding to systems of collecting revenue, which ought to be ready by now. It is so that all the loopholes are sealed for them to collect enough money for paying salaries. I believe there are some counties which collect enough revenue to pay their people. There are a few governors who do not cry always for lack of money. Their people never go on strike because they have enough money to pay salaries, say, for nurses and doctors. However, majority of them have not seen the need of collecting enough money and saving the same money to be used for recurrent expenditure. My constituency collects a lot of money. We have sand harvesting whereby about 200 lorries carry sand daily and each lorry is charged Kshs2,000. That amounts to Ksh400,000 per day. If you multiply that by seven days, because they come daily, it is Kshs2.8 million. In one month, it is over Kshs11.2 million and that is only from sand. There are others that come to sell cabbages from Central Kenya. Others bring other food stuffs and they are all charged. Therefore, if the money is collected and saved, it is a lot. There would be no need to cry when the National Government has not remitted money to them. I have realised that the clerks, especially in my area, earn little money, but they live large. The kind of cars that they drive, the houses they have built and the investments they have are big. That tells you that the collection in the county is much. Therefore, this Bill, if it is utilised properly, will bring uniformity in the collection of revenue in the counties and monies collected will help counties develop. I have realised that whatever is collected is not ploughed back to the constituencies. This is because even the bridges that we built through the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), because of the weight of the lorries, they get destroyed and they do not even bother to repair them. It is us who seek money from KeRRA again to build them. Therefore, value in our constituencies is not got from the money 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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