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    "id": 1169117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1169117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to the Statement that has been brought forward by Sen. Olekina. It is very unfortunate. This morning, I was watching news and saw that the tax regime – the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) – had surpassed their target by about Kshs140 billion. It means that they collected more than what was expected of them. Could it be that the tax collected – that seems to be over and above the expectation – is as a result of the pressure that we are putting on the economy and on the people of Kenya? If the collection surpasses the target by Kshs140 billion, where is this extra money coming from? Why has it not been there before? Why have the other regimes not been collecting more? I am tempted to think that we are overburdening our people because Kshs1 billion is a lot of money. If you talk of Kshs140 billion over and above the expectation, it makes me think that we are overburdening our people. The Government should not be happy that they are over-collecting revenue. Instead, it should look at the plight of our people. Madam Deputy Speaker, coming back to the oil issue, when there was exploration of oil in this county, all of us were very happy. We had high expectations that we were going to refine the oil that had been discovered in Turkana County. My colleague here has already spoken to that. When the exploration started, Kenyans expected that our lives would be better and that there would be ease in the economy. We expected a lot of growth in this country. However, from the look of things, it is like we are making no headway. A lot of money that we spent on exploration of oil has gone to waste. We were told that the oil in Turkana County was enough to be explored for over ten years, flowing freely to Kenyans to better their lives. However, that is now a thing of the past. I come from the Lake Region and we were told that there is a lot of oil deposits around Kisumu area into Nyakach. We were further told of how the oil flows from the upper part going towards the Lake region. This gave Kenyans a lot of hope that if we explored the oil and it is translated to the general economy, the country would do much better and the lives of our people would improve."
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