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    "id": 1207989,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1207989/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "As a House, we have been using CRA Reports to debate our Division of Revenue Bill, and my experience is that we have been facing challenges with the reports of this Commission. This is because when it comes to sharing revenue, at times we have allowed politics to take the front row. The reason why it is very specific that the people joining this Commission must at least have a bachelor’s degree is because whatever they do is supposed to be informed by research, so that whatever information they pass to us, as an Assembly, to the Treasury in terms of advisory role and to the Senate, is informed by research. What has happened is that despite that work being done by the Commissioners, at times we have gone for the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), and at that level, the figures they propose are normally moderated to accommodate political interests so that we do not release what is expected."
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