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    "id": 1400504,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1400504/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "We normally see county governments using a lot of money to do all manner of things, such as putting up banners and advertising on media saying they are waiving land rates, land fees and many other charges. However, it is important to have discipline and order in the legal framework. Last week, I was meeting my sugarcane farmers and, as we all know, there is a Sugar Bill that is under consideration at the moment. There must be order in every sector. You cannot just wake up one day and say you want to do waivers, yet you intend to waive it on behalf of your friends or specific interests. So, there must be a certain threshold. The biggest defaulter in paying land rates is this country is the Government. In Nairobi City County, for example, Gov. Sakaja will tell you that most of the pending bills are for Government agencies. That is the sad reality that we owe billions of shillings and it hampers the own resource revenue. Where I come from in Nandi County, own source revenue is a sad story. We do not want to open it because it looks more like an eulogy or some sort of defence of total misnomer in terms of collection of it. Unlike in Makueni County, in Nandi, we have tea. We also have cess from Sugarcane, which forms one of the basis. We were with farmers at Aldai-Maraba of Chemilil-Chemase Ward, near Kisumu, 17 kilometres near Miwani, Kipkorok and Samoget at Maraba Primary School grounds. One of the issues that cropped up was the state of cess that is being collected from sugarcane and tea farmers. It affects the own source revenue of individual counties. I heard the Senator of Nyamira County highlighting a county that has seen significance change in terms of leadership. It is where Senator Beatrice Ogolla comes from. In my county is that you collect cess, but the roads are not passable. For example, Chemelil-Maraba road is in a deplorable condition. I was also with sugarcane farmers at Chepterwai in Mosop Sub-County and they were complaining about cess. So, this issue of rating and waivers forms part of own source revenue. The sugarcane farmers come from the same region. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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