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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "it ends up in people’s pockets and private accounts. The institutions of governance in this country have badly let down the country. The office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the Auditor-General, the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and all these institutions that ought to be looking after public resources, not to forget our own watchdog committees in Houses of assemblies and Houses of Parliament. They can do better. There was a county that had 50 different accounts in which they were depositing own source revenue. This is causing confusion so that they can be able to steal the money. This has to be checked by the assemblies, this House and other institutions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, more importantly, as we push for more revenue to be collected, we must guard against fleecing the ordinary people in the villages. I have seen in some counties that mama mboga and boda boda riders are taxed on a daily basis. In other counties, they pay once a month while in other counties they pay once a year. This House has a duty - I want to urge Sen. Khaniri to move beyond his Statement and look at what law of general application of counties we can bring to give general guidance on own source revenue collection, especially on common user activities like boda boda, mamamboga and others. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, the issue of punishing counties for failing to collect revenues to their target is punitive, unreasonable and should be relooked at. The monies that go to the counties for the ordinary people that we represent for healthcare and agriculture; if a Governor is reckless or incompetent in collecting taxes, why take away money being allocated from the national Government for facilities that reach the ordinary person? We must find a way of dealing with errand Governors and protecting the people in the counties. Thank you."
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