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    "id": 1586414,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1586414/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " The Chairman is my friend. When we first joined Parliament, we sat together on the Finance Committee. I fully understand the explanation he is offering to justify this specific fund for KRA. Hon. Temporary Chairman, you are also a Member of the Budget and Appropriation Committee. When the Chairman appeared before us to defend departmental budgets, he did not inform us that KRA required this amount of funding. That issue did not come up. I can even produce the Hansard . If it is a matter of the Kenya Revenue Authority sorting out issues to do with salary increments, we can deal with that. If we give blanket allocations to the KRA, other Government agencies will also want the same. We do not want to go down that road. Let us collect taxes and put them in one basket. Those who want money can come to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, defend themselves and then we will give them money. Otherwise, this is a very bad precedent. I would like Members to reject this amendment."
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