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    "id": 1342478,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1342478/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In my response to the Questions and the detailed answers that are provided, I am going to answer Question one, which is on page one and the rest of the questions are combined in question 11 from my detailed responses. My response to the first Question is that the Kenya Revenue Authority recruited 1,406 Revenue Service Assistants who have been undergoing training at the Recruits Training School in Eldoret since 20th June 2023. They graduated on 25th August 2023. The role of the Revenue Assistant Officers is purely intelligence gathering and management to detect, deter and stem tax evasion. So, it is work that is related to field work and it requires physical fitness and alertness, and for swift and tactical skills hence the reason the Revenue Service Assistants (RSA) Programme had a dimension of paramilitary training for effective policing interventions against VAT and Excise Tax leakages. This is the first time the Authority has undertaken such a programme, hence it collaborated with the National Defence Forces to successfully roll out the programme. In this regard, the Authority complied with the requirements set out by the paramilitary trainers. For health and safety of the recruits themselves, part of the requirement was medical assessment to ascertain if the trainees were fit for the rigorous paramilitary training. Upon medical assessment, any candidate found not fit for the training was, therefore, not enrolled for the training. In this regard, only the two persons that have been referred to were found unfit. One was for health reasons, and the second one was for providing a falsified police clearance certificate. I have provided the details of what happened. They were not trained for the three days. They were not even trained because they did not undergo the process. The next Question is found on number 11 from my list. Let me get it."
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