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    "id": 1082697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Report because it is timely. I join my colleagues to say that KRA should be properly facilitated. I have very brief points. I may not even finish the five minutes. I just wanted to appreciate the Committee for visiting all those entry and exit points of goods and people from Kenya as they engage in their businesses, thereby necessitating taxation. I encourage the able Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and fault her for not visiting all those points that would be referred to as “ panya routes”. Migori County enjoys one of the longest borders with Tanzania and Uganda through the lake. Apart from visiting Sirare, there are very many other entries that quite a number of goods, especially consumables like food substances led by maize and fruits, come in in volumes and nobody captures them. For example, there is this place I call Kitabaye in Suna West and even the border in the lake at Muhuru Bay through another place just at the exact border of Tanzania and Kenya in the lake. All those places bring in quite a number of goods from outside. They pass through there without taxation. If anybody pays anything, then that money goes to the hands of the wrong people. This encourages something that I used to hear being talked about in Kenya called magendo . Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if KRA is properly facilitated through proper financing, they should establish even more border points, especially between us and the East African countries. What the Chair has highlighted is a pity. Our trucks pass our border. They are scanned on the other side and then we borrow those pictures. That is unacceptable because Kenya is ahead of the other East African countries in technology and education. I am aware that we are sisters and brothers. However, as much as we talk about the EAC, it is not easy for people from our country to cross over and even do business in the other countries. I am talking with authority because I take care of a border county. There is the concept of scanning goods which are in the trucks. I support Hon. Wanga’s point. Sometimes, those truck owners carry illicit goods or they hide the ones that have value under some valueless goods and they pass. For example, after our election in 2017, there was an incident in Migori County of a big truck that came in and it was trapped at some stage. It was carrying"
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