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    "id": 1459627,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": "The other thing we need to speak about in this country is budgeted corruption because there is a lot of embezzlement due to budgeted corruption. By the time we are asking different departmental committees to give us their budget, have we gone back and checked against their performance contracts? Were they able to deliver what was put in their performance contracts? We do not do that. What we do is treat this whole country as a cost centre. The reason I say this is because you will rarely see, when having departmental committee meetings, the different ministries in this country come with a document stating how they are planning to raise revenue. This takes me back to something the Rt Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga wanted for this country. He once said that as a country we should have one product per county. What that meant was that every county would focus on a specific product, be very good at it and raise revenue within their own streams from that. Those are some of the austerity measures we should be talking about as a country. We should be talking about how else to bring up innovations and investments to raise money instead of giving excuses about how there is no money because there is no Finance Bill 2024. Must it always be that we are raising money from taxation? I will give you an example of the Ghanian government right now. They have focused on an investment-driven government for them to raise money from other sources other than taxation. That is the direction we should be thinking as a country."
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