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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "The importance of declaring and upholding proper standards of conduct by licensees is very important. Sometimes, the uncouth business behaviours of licensees are rude and uncontrollable. They want to do everything by themselves and this makes it very difficult for business people. If we pass this Bill, it will ensure that licensees are people who have a standard operating procedure, which they can use to ensure that they do business very well. This is a very important Bill which will promote efficiency and effectiveness in the administration of licensing processes in the counties to ensure that they are undertaken in a fair and transparent way. This Bill from the Senate is going to help run counties for them to be able to generate enough revenue and ensure that there is ease of doing business. We have an opportunity as the 13th Parliament to ensure that we streamline businesses in the counties. Hon. Deputy Speaker, own source revenue has been a key problem for counties. They budget, give huge budget estimates for own source revenue, but they are unable to collect this revenue because of the hindrances that are within the licensing regime. This Bill will ensure that our counties now collect enough local revenue so that they do not have to depend entirely on the national Government. They can now have a uniform, transparent, easy and efficient procedure for licensing. This will help counties to generate more local revenue for themselves. With all those many remarks, I support this, Bill. I would also ask, the Hon. Omar Mwinyi, the great man from Mombasa, the leader from Changamwe, who has been tried, tested and proven to be a quality leader to support this Bill on behalf of the people of Mombasa. I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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