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    "id": 1165970,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165970/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank, Sen. Nyamunga, for coming up with this Bill. I hope it will be processed through until it becomes an Act of Parliament before the end of the life of this Parliament. This Bill deals with the county resources development. For the last nine or so years, counties have mainly been depending on the resources allocated by this House from the centre; the equitable share. Looking at the reports by the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General, you will find that the counties are even generating less than what the local authorities used to generate despite the fact that they have more capacity and more resources in terms of manpower. They can easily map out their resource areas and even digitize it and make sure that everything is collected and reported. However, some have been having manual means of collection, which end up in peoples’ pockets sometimes or the revenue at source is not recorded. One issue has been that the focus has been on the money from the equitable share. There is need to have a structured way of making sure that counties clearly identify the resources they have as the Bill here states in Section 4."
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