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    "id": 1052397,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report by the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and before I proceed, I appreciate the efforts that have been done by the Committee on its own volition to think outside the box and ensure that the Government of Kenya can work and realise some funds besides taxation. Conventionally, most governments would like to rely on tax unlike what the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has done. Looking at what is happening with regard to sources of revenue for a country, once you identify a unique source as it is today in this Report, it makes it better that the Government can benefit out of it. It is not only the Port of Mombasa. There are various peculiar sites and centers which we can use to harness revenue, but they have all been left out. Could it be intentional or an omission? Looking at what the Committee has recommended in this Report plus its observations and considering that I, through the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, has visited the infrastructure, this is a good infrastructure. It is well set, strategic and supposed to serve this country, but it is doing the opposite. Looking at the figures that are being quoted, the parity between USD10 and USD3 which they are paying raises questions. We are left wondering if it is going to somebody’s pocket. Why are we being paid very low? It is not just the issue of the service being received, but why is it that this organisation is paying very little amount in taxes? What is happening in the global market? How are other ports being run? It leaves us with unanswered questions. Looking at the recommendations that the Committee has come up with, the biggest devil in a government or country is to encourage monopolisation. It is too late that we are coming up with such a wonderful Report. I would want the Committee on Implementation to quickly move in immediately we pass this Report such that it is implemented to the letter. We feel that the issue of monopoly must be done away with. This is one thing we must condemn. Now that the 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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