{"id":955197,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/955197/?format=json","text_counter":46,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Ali","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be brief. I would like to congratulate the Commission on Revenue Allocation for bringing the financial index. If they did not do that, it would encourage counties to over-estimate their own source revenue. If they continue doing that, they will always have problems and that is part of corruption that has been stated. What I remember is that in the old times when we had county councils, some of them used to collect a lot of revenue. The people who usually collected the money were tax collectors and the receipts had no numbers. As a result, you would find that the tax collector was a very rich man while the Chairman of the county council was very poor. As the Governor for West Pokot usually says: “They are fat, round and short because of the money they eat from the public”."}