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    "id": 878216,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878216/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "scenario?” Instead of upward trend and mobility, do we now want to accommodate the incompetencies through corruption and non-collection of revenue? We have given them tools of revenue collection, there is a Bill and an Act of Parliament that came through here – through the Public Finance Management Act (PFM) on how to collect revenue. We even went ahead and enhanced revenue collection by increasing the Value Added Tax, (VAT) on fuel to eight percent. If the policy mechanisms that they ought to have put in place to redress this non-revenue collection has failed, they should not visit that failure on revenue to counties. I will vehemently oppose, even if it is me alone, any attempt to reduce the revenue allocation to counties. I will go further and say that whereas we are fighting very hard for these counties to receive this kind of money, in my opinion, we should be basing the revenue allocation on the last audited accounts of the Financial Year, 2017/2018. We are not there yet; we are still on the Financial Year, 2013/2014."
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