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    "id": 563397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. At the end of this exercise, I hope that the Committee will come up with firm recommendations especially on two issues. One is the secrecy surrounding budgets in county governments. MCAs and members of the public have no idea of what budgets are passed by their respective assemblies. If they were allowed to participate, you would not have found items like pornography in the budget of Bungoma County, entertainment in Bomet County and Kakamega County where money is voted for carrying a chair for the Governor to sit from the headquarters to funerals. It would not have found as you found in Machakos, a provision of a confidential account where the Governor can spend as and when he wishes. We must allow the public and MCAs to interrogate budgets. Finally, the issue of revenue collected at source within counties forms a central role in breaching the difference between the amount of money that the Senate gives to them and the amount that the government wants to spend. You cannot have a provision for revenue collection at source when MCAs and the public have no idea what county governments are collecting. Today, all county governments are under-reporting. In counties like Kakamega and Kisii where they were collecting an average of Kshs2 billion in a financial year, they are collecting even less than a quarter of that. I support."
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