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    "id": 868892,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/868892/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
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    "content": "or a mitumba dealer has to visit the county offices severally for weeks or months before they can be issued with an operating single permit licence to do business. This sanction that has been proposed here will make sure that the counties are able to revitalise their revenue collection systems so that they do not have to wait for the government allocations. It is very sad that during the time of the former Town Clerk, Gakuo - and may the Lord rest his soul in eternal peace - the County of Nairobi was able to meet most of its obligations. Today, you find that nurses and doctors are on the streets every day demanding payment of their salaries. Those roles also require the counties to make sure that they seek the concurrence of the Central Bank of Kenya in determining which banks and they will borrow money from and at what rate. This is meant to make sure that the county accounts and finance department does not collude with county officials to borrow money at exaggerated rates. In the Finance Act, we passed a law requiring counties to collect presumptive tax on behalf of the national Government of Kenya. The National Treasury needs to work very closely with the counties otherwise the national Government will not raise any sensible amounts from presumptive tax. I say so because there are a lot of delays and inconveniences when counties issue licences. The national Government is relying on the county government to levy the presumptive tax when they are issuing the single business permit. It is important that the National Treasury and the Kenya Revenue Authority work very closely with CECs of all county governments to make sure that collection of revenue in the form of single business permit is done effectively, efficiently and without undue harassment to the hawkers, operators and businesspeople. It is important to note that in Nairobi County, there has been a lot of trader displacement. When our hawkers, groceries and mitumba dealers who operate from small markets by the roadsides are displaced every day, their markets are run down. Their kiosks are demolished. It means that the counties, and particularly the County of Nairobi, is killing the potential of raising enough revenues from those people. Every time the National Treasury reads the Budget, they always commend the micro-enterprises for providing employment. However, when it comes to licensing or providing sufficient spaces for the creation of markets, the County of Nairobi has not been effective. We need to tell the County of Nairobi under Governor Sonko to wake up, create markets, improve the existing ones that have been run down and recover all the land and public spaces that have been grabbed. The traders of Nairobi only need the county government to provide space. They will build canteens and stalls for themselves instead of having to wait for the county to build shades and they are only empty promises. In the last five years, the people of Gikomba have been promised state-of-the-art markets by the World Bank and Government of Kenya but for the last five years, even after all these erratic fires which occur from time to time, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}