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    "id": 926444,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am aware that our colleagues in the Senate have published another Bill, but I am not aware about how far they have gone in its deliberation. As much as all these issues may end up in mediation, I think it is important for our colleagues in the Senate and our country at large, including our Council of Governors and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), to be alive to the realities of our nation today in terms of revenue generation. The challenge is not just on the national Government to enhance our revenue collections, but also for county governments to enhance their own-source revenue. If you look at statistics from the Controller of Budget’s Office, across the board from County No.1 to County No.47, own-source revenue in the last two to three years has been dwindling. There is no single county where you will find own- source revenue going up. Therefore, it is not just a challenge to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), but also to our county governments and the governors who are managing these counties to ensure that they enhance collection of revenue. I remember earlier this year, none other than President Uhuru Kenyatta offered to allow the KRA to work with county governments to enable them enhance their own-source revenue. Why are our county governments not keen to exploit that opportunity and use a system of collecting revenue that has been proved to work in the country? They can collect this revenue through the KRA and the money will still end up in their revenue accounts but, for obvious reasons, you know many of them may not be keen to have these monies collected on their behalf by the KRA. Without casting any aspersions on anyone, I just want to encourage them to work with the KRA to collect for them revenue on their behalf. It will also be a source of revenue in terms of agency fees for the KRA and also a challenge that I will be posing to the KRA to explore ways and enter into memorandum of understanding with county governments to collect revenues for them. That will not just enhance the revenues that we collect, but it will be a source of income in terms of agency fees for the KRA."
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