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    "id": 1502724,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502724/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "we give money to EACC and DCI from taxpayers to fight corruption, but there is nothing to smile about. As a reggae song says, when you look outside the window, do you see anything to smile about? Our counties are becoming bastions of inefficiency, moribundity and corruption. Finally, on the issue of own source revenue, Nairobi City County, according to the Commission on Revenue Allocation report, has the potential to collect Kshs67 billion, but it is collecting Kshs12 billion. Where is 50 billion? Nandi County has a revenue potential of Kshs700 million, but it is collecting Kshs200 million. I see governors celebrating, but they are not telling the country whether their own source revenue is giving value. Governors will talk about equitable shareable revenue being appropriated, but they will never tell you about their own source revenue. Why are boda boda riders in Chepterit, Aldai and Chemase paying for boda boda stickers? In Mosoriot, Kaptumo, Kabuchai, Chepterwai, Nandi Hills, and Kapsabet Town, the mama mboga have a dysfunctional town market where there are no sanitary facilities, including toilets. Those women sit from morning to evening, but there are no toilets to use, and they are paying money to counties. It is raining in Nandi now and the roads are impassible. Boda boda riders have been forced to construct sheds of grass to protect themselves from the sun or the rain yet governors will not tell you about their own source revenue. If you ask the CoG Chairperson, they will never tell you about their own source revenue. They will tell you about money in the National Treasury. They will never tell you what they are doing to achieve the CRA revenue potential. We must agree that own source revenue should provide value for our people going forward. As a Senate, we must have a conversation. I oppose this Report. Thank you."
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