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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I admire the revitalised Sen. Gloria and her contributions on this Floor since we began. I just wanted to inform her that indeed the economic activities in places like Tana River are dominated by investors in those large parcels of land. However, the county government hardly collects anything in the little investments like the shambas and the houses. The reason we are saying this Rating Bill is very good is that if we can streamline the collections from all those big investors, the massive irrigation etcetera and it comes to the county government, then even what they are charging the bar owners or the market owners will come down. That is the information I wanted to give my colleague. Indeed, the level of economic activity is low. We do not have factories or industries, but there are huge investors and we are collecting nothing from them. They just use the land, make the money and maybe pay Government taxes. So, the own source revenue is very little. If this National Rating Bill is supported by the Senate and passed, we hope that it will increase the base and we will benefit from those huge areas that we are covering. Of course, she makes a good point about the pilferages. We have bad mismanagement and there is no excuse for that. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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