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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I know it is a very long list. I was being challenged by a dual team of people from Maasai land. There is a very serious one sitting in the Chair and another one challenged me as I walked in. I, therefore, felt a bit intimidated to speak on this. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me just touch on the general issue, which comes at the very end. When I was in this Committee, we noticed that the revenue collection targets that counties had set for themselves were not being met. The fact that they had an opportunity to set those targets meant that maybe with proper collection, they could have achieved those targets. However, there were basically two main reasons why they were not achieved; and one of them is lack of experience. Some counties were over ambitious on how much they could collect. They were not realistic and this being the first time, we sort of said “Okay, be realistic next time.” Madam Temporary Speaker, the second reason is that some counties were not collecting enough; not because they had been over-ambitious in their targets, but to me, it was because of the fact that not everything that was being collected was being accounted for. One cannot explain why a county government should collect less than what used to be collected by the totality of the local authorities when they were in existence. We know that those local authorities never accounted for most of the money. They had very poor collection because the systems were not working and there was a lot of corruption. The collection was manual,with double receipting and so on, and so forth. However, in spite of that, they collected something. Therefore, when a county government now comes with all the personnel – they have employed the right people to do this – and proper targets but then collect less than what those local authorities used to collect, then there is something serious and more fundamental in that issue. Most likely, it is corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am aware of one or two counties closer home where rumour has it that whatever is collected at the border, only a third is put into the system and two-thirds goes into pockets of people. That is why I believe that the Committee made a recommendation to the very last paragraph that:- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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