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    "content": "“The Committee recommends the matter of revenue collection and remittance was a very important matter and it should be revisited by the Committee as it is part of its oversight mandate.” They felt that the Senate should go into the depth of the systems of collecting money by the counties so that nothing is stolen, because everything will be accounted for and goes through the system. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that some counties have not been very active with what we call the “Automated System of Revenue Collection.” When I was in the Government, we were not quite happy with the way the Customs Department was collecting funds at the Port of Mombasa or in other places. In fact, we bought the computers and everything. Those computers were never put to any use at all because of the system of the people who were there wishing to continue with the same way they used to put money in their pockets. Those computers became obsolete. We should be worried that there will be a repeat of that as far as the county government is concerned. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to support this Report of the Committee, where I was a Member, and plead with the Senate that when all is discussed, you will find that one of the common denominators in all these counties is the lack of proper collection of funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, county governments are not just going to rely on the so-called equitable funds from the national Government. They are now relying completely on that. The county governments which are going to make progress in this country, move and develop are those ones which are going to make their own collection of funds and find ways they can attract investments so that they can increase their tax revenue.In that regard, the issue of money takes center stage.The front stage of making the counties more reliable, rather than just waiting for what comes from the national Government and rely on it, is taken to corruption and so on, and so forth. That is why you sometimes find that most in county governments, executives, chief Officers, et cetera are living larger than life. Where is that money coming from? It could be corruption, but you may find it is because of the fact that not all the money they raise locally is properly accounted for. Most of it is taken in cash form, which why they live larger than life; even better than Senators. These are mere executives of county governments but who are living better than some of us, who have worked for the Government for a long time and what we have is what we have earned properly. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support and wish to commend the Committee, Chaired by none other than Sen. M. Kajwang’ and the very active member from Maasailand. I urge them to continue with the good work they are doing to really put these people to task on the various issues."
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