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    "id": 1134323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1134323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "bureaus. Some of them are spending even over 50 percent of their revenues on wages. This is a matter that needs to be looked into. Lastly, is the issue of own source revenue. This is where one of the biggest problems in our counties lies. It is a problem that this Senate, perhaps even the next, should seriously think how to deal with. I say this because when many of the county governments collect their revenues from local taxes, many of them will do two things: One, they will spend money at source of collection, which is against the law, while others will underreport. Instead of the ideal situation whereby county governments are supposed to increasingly collect more funds in successive years and relying less on allocations form the national Government, we are now seeing a situation where they are collecting less and relying more on the national Government allocations. Lastly on the issue of allocation of funds to counties, I thank the Committee for proposing Kshs495billion up from Kshs370billion and that is where we will stop. We are not going to budge on that one. We shall insist that counties must receive more than Kshs370 billion at least to deal with the issue of inflation. If you allow counties to be given Kshs370 billion as proposed, then it will mean, in real terms, our counties will be having to spend less money in terms of value because of inflation. With those remarks, I support."
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