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    "id": 886763,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Product (GDP). One of the challenges that I hope the Bill will look into is how to handle Own Source Revenue (OSR). You will find that 12 to 13 per cent of any financing in all county governments across the country comes from OSR. We had a discussion to agree on how to work with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to ensure that we seal leakages in terms of revenue collection in our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the Report of the Auditor-General for Financial Year 2014/2015 of Nandi County, the county government used to bank in less than 100 metres. The county government headquarters and the National Bank in Kapsabet Town is less than 100 metres. However, when banking was done at the county Treasury, Kshs960,000 used to get lost daily. Therefore, we need to have a creative way to ensure that we have OSR to supplement other revenue. This is because most funding is done by the national Government and that is why we must agree that financing for county governments must be sufficient. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was watching some discussion yesterday on television where the prophets of doom and the people who do not believe in devolution were saying that county governments are not sustainable. They are not sustainable because we have allowed leakages of Own Source Revenue (OSR). Interestingly, the county governments even under the indictment of the Auditor-General in all audit reports including 2017/2018, they have given and passed a sentence that regarding Own Source Revenue, we must seal leakages and ensure---. You find that the Council of Governors (CoG) do not want a model like the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) because the more the leakage, the merrier for many of them, such that they can ensure that this revenue being collected funds their lifestyles."
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