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    "id": 1082723,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1082723/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Changamwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omar Mwinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa",
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    "content": "Secretaries (CSs) not active in making sure that revenue collection is done efficiently for this country to grow? There is another challenge facing the KRA. Here we are encouraging them to collect more revenue, but what happens when this revenue goes to the Treasury? We hear of people stealing money allocated for dams and other projects. So, we end up doing what is called zero-plus-zero- is-zero. That is why everybody in Kenya today is a thief. It is because they are seeing everybody else prospering by stealing Government money. So, why do you have to collect money for the Government for it to end up in a politician’s pocket? These are the challenges we have as a nation. The Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, I want you to take note of this one. It is a major concern. We also have the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) where we have tax regimes discussed among the member States. They normally come up with acceptable taxes, but how we renege on this is a matter of contest that we should also look into. Why should Tanzania have a different tax regime yet we are working as a team under the EALA? What is the problem? Why should the traders in Moyale go to Ethiopia to buy goods and likewise in Uganda? This is something that, of course, we should ask ourselves. Hon. Ochanda talked about reports of four Committees. Why do we not have those reports together and form a select Committee to look into the existing challenges? We need to sort this problem once and for all. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Report. I congratulate the Committee for doing a good job. Thank you."
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