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    "id": 851602,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "There is a provision that the Senator for Narok County has been talking about on the licences that should take one full year. I agree that when one takes a site and they are businessmen who have projected to get some revenue, having a site for a month or two months is not good business. We should have it for a year but also go further and make sure that the county government shares the month to month changes of advertising material and revenue generated from that. Once you have paid the Kshs5,000 fees to the county government, you can do what you want with the site. When you go to advertise something, you negotiate with the county government. The county government should be in a position to also have a say in what the agency and their client are trading with the site such that if you have somebody paying Kshs50,000 this month and next month, you have somebody paying Kshs100,000, the difference must be accounted for in revenue for the county government. I say this because county governments need to do much more than what they are doing. Those of us who sit in the Committee on Finance and Budget know, and this House should know, that for a long time now, county governments just gets recurrent expenditure disbursements. There is no development going on. They are just disbursing money for salaries to stop workers from rioting and giving the country a bad image but county governments are not receiving enough money to mount development to give the people of Kenya the dream of devolution that they all rose to vote for when they voted for this Constitution. This kind of innovative thinking helps in a small way in making sure that counties, even those that are in far flung places, where you are unlikely to find big advertisements, get something. If you go to Wajir County, because of the structure of our religious feelings and so on, you are unlikely to find billboards that generate a lot of money like the ones for beer and other things. When Safaricom and others go there, they should pay. The betting companies are making obscene profits in this country. The other day, I saw that Sportpesa is now accounting for 27 per cent of the transactions of Mpesa for Safaricom and other providers. Are they paying taxes on this? They advertise everywhere and you see billboards all over. We should also have differentiated licensing for bluechip companies, struggling companies and emerging companies. I do not expect Sen. Omanga to be levied the same revenue when she wants to start a business, as what you are levying Safaricom or Sportpesa. We need this differentiated approach for us to help those who are emerging to grow as we sustain those who have already grown. This is ridiculous, and it is the same thing that happens when a fresher from university is applying for a job and he is told that they are looking for ten years‘ experience yet he has just left university the same year. In most cases, you will get that they are qualified just like everyone else. Those positive discrimination that come in processes of public management of affairs have to be relooked at. If we manage this well, in another five years, this industry can grow to more The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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