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    "id": 1165763,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165763/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "The vehicles that move from one market to the other and they are obligated to pay revenue, are still being issued with receipts manually even after counties budgeted millions of shillings to automate revenue collection. That is what this Bill is proposing, that counties must think outside the box. You cannot wait year in, year out for the Senate to allocate revenue to your county so that you can spur development. You can also be innovative on how you collect revenue from your own county and use that income to develop your county. Why are we unable to adequately provide medical services in our counties? For example, in Nyamira County, our people always cross over to Bomet County to get treatment from Tenwek Hospital. Others are taken all the way to Eldoret yet if we did good collection of our revenue at the counties, we can have good hospitals that can provide quality medicare to our people. Madam Deputy Speaker, this idea of forming economic blocks is a very good idea. We can learn from what has happened within the European Union. Those 24 countries are serving a population of more than 400 million people in an area of more than 4 million square kilometres. We can have Nyamira, Kisii, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Vihiga counties coming together to form a strong economic block that will make trading easier for our people who are moving from one county to the other. These economic blocks can come together and make movement of trade and services between those counties easier. We can also harmonise taxation among those counties. However, we can never succeed unless we deal with this issue of corruption. We must also demand for more from the County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) that we are giving more responsibilities. We must put Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) on their toes. The money that we send to our counties ends up in people’s pockets, if not utilized well. We will keep on sending money to counties but it ends up in people’s pockets."
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