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    "id": 482456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njenga",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kigo Njenga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another thing that I feel we need also to look into is this issue of accessibility to records. I think the Chairman should also look into this. This is good because we need to do an in depth and compliance audit any one time that we feel one is not declaring adequate taxes. However, this can also become a loophole where tax officers enter into people’s premises and collect unnecessary records, sometimes without the people knowing and create tax liabilities which they then use to threaten them and coerce money from them. This has happened in the past because we did not have a law that allowed people to go and produce records before a tax officer. I believe and I want to say that if this can be managed, we can also increase our tax revenue. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we do that we will be able to grow our infrastructure. We will also provide free education. We will deliver on the Jubilee manifesto including the free maternity services and others that we have promised Kenyans, including increasing security, raising the number of policemen, increasing the number of teachers, paying the retired teachers of 1997 and 2007 who taught us and have not been paid and many other obligations will be met. By so doing I am very sure that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) will be increased. I believe that increasing CDF makes more sense than sometimes increasing the money we give these governors. Any pilot project in any county, sub-county or any constituency comes from CDF. So, I think it is high time we increased CDF so that people can feel the money from the Government better. The governors should copy what the Members of Parliament (MPs) are doing with the little money they get. I wish they can even work three or four times better than we work. I request them and especially the governor of my county to come and challenge me."
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