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    "id": 643836,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643836/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 148,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wambugu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 149,
        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. He was just trying to further explain what I meant. We will wait for that report. For a long time, we have been discussing and talking of collection of revenue and sharing of the national cake. As a country, we need to put measures in place to look into areas of generating more revenue. The fights that we have had in this country have been because of scarcity of resources and revenue. We need to start thinking seriously of investing in areas where we will get more revenue so that we give more to our people. With regard to the issue of corruption, I would expect that next week, when the President gives an address to Parliament, because of the issues that we have had of late on matters of corruption, he should declare corruption a national disaster so that we start looking for more drastic measures to deal with this menace. Though we allocate a lot of funds to the counties, it is a matter of great concern because most of these funds are not visible. Remember some time back about two years ago, we talked of having a county projects coordinating committee which failed to sail through when it was taken to the Senate. We need to revisit that. As I conclude, most of the funds that we are giving to the counties are conditional grants. There is a very funny clause in all of them. We are giving them these funds in order to compensate them for costs incurred for rendering services and compensate county governments. A few years ago, we had the export compensation plan which created a very serious issue namely, the Goldenberg scandal. Are we going in the same direction? People can come up with claims that they offered services to counties which cannot---"
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