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    "id": 643823,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for that advice. I note that there has been growth in the allocation of revenue from the threshold of 15 per cent to almost 32 per cent. I am also expecting it to grow further when we come to the revenue of 2016/17. Like we have discussed, these figures are looking a bit low because they are based on the audited revenue accounts of 2013/14. We have noted the good performance of the Public Accounts Account that is headed by Eng. Gumbo. But for us to get the most current and up to- date information, we need to look at the bodies that give us information. The offices of the Auditor-General and Controller of Budget give us reports every year. It is high time we started looking seriously into those two bodies to empower them and even give them better funding so that they can start more and better equipped offices at the county level or even preferably at the sub-county level. Everybody who has stood before the Floor of the House has been talking about corruption. This is a very grave matter because we have discussed it in all Parliaments. Even in the last parliament we discussed about it but it looks like there is nothing being done. Unless we change some of our laws we might never fight this monster called corruption. I am expecting the President in his State of the Nation Address next week to declare corruption a national disaster so that we look for better measures of dealing with it. In this country we always talk of sharing and collection of revenue. We have not seriously thought about or engaged ourselves in thinking of ways of generating more revenue so that we can share out more to our counties."
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