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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will be brief. First, I want to support this Bill and thank the Committee for ensuring that for the first time, we did not go through a mediation process. The Chairman of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) said that the tax exemption of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is one of the reasons we are not collecting enough revenue. It is important that we look at all the components of SGR. We have locomotives, scanners and facilities that are supposed to be imported. It is also important to look at their prices. While the governors continue to build facilities, we need to know how we will deal with the human resource component because ethnicity is high in county governments. The nurses are being sent back to the national Government and their salaries held by the county governments. We, as the Senate, need to work on that and ensure cohesion in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us to question the revenue collection in the counties. We should ensure that local revenue is collected and used in a prudent manner. There are rich people who are not educated and, therefore, do not understand the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). They have decided to hold on to their money. It is up to the Government to come up with a system that can be used even by those who do not understand the IFMIS, so that it can collect more revenue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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