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    "id": 181613,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to start by thanking and congratulating Dr. Eseli for coming up with this kind of Motion; a Motion that deals with the core issues; a Motion that needs to be, in future, discussed in much depth. These are issues that need to be brought out more clearly. They are issues that need to be expounded upon. We need to make sure that they are not clouded in some things that are not clear. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many speakers have raised a number of issues; all of them very valid to some extent. But I would like to add my voice to the same discussion and say: Since we are doing a lot of devolving of funds, it is important that we actually understand the parameters and factors that are helping us to decide on how much money goes to what region. It is also important to make - and I have not heard this mentioned by any of the speakers who have talked before me--- We also need to pay attention to the amount of money that is taxed from one region to another. If we just continue talking about issues of distribution of resources without paying attention to how we get those resources, then eventually, we will have shot our own foot. You cannot tax people and expect them not to get any return from that taxation. It is true that regions are different. We need to look at regions differently. But we should never ever lose that opportunity."
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