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    "id": 983318,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983318/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "We have talked about the risks in revenue shortfalls which have been notorious. Every year, the collections are way less than the projections. They, sometimes, end up inadvertently and without sufficient clarity in greater debts because you have to make up for the shortfalls that occur when actual numbers come in. We need to have great spotlight on this. The National Treasury must do that. After all, they have kept Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) deeply under their wing. They must shine a bright spotlight on KRA which knows what is happening in the rest of the world. They should ask them why year-in, year-out, our aggregate collection of revenue falls short of the GDP. The growth in GDP does not result in the revenues that we expect. According to our GDP, we expect revenue collection to be above 20, 21 or 23 per cent, which means Kshs2.3 trillion rather than Kshs1.8 trillion. There is room there to tighten the belt within the economy. I will not discuss that yet. I will get to the issue of the emergencies that arise. Our projected figure should not be Kshs1.8 trillion. At the very minimum, it should be well above Kshs2 trillion. There is already some headroom there which may have a hidden solution. Perhaps, some revenue is collected but it is not submitted to the National Treasury. If it does, the National Treasury ought to have a satisfactory explanation which they can defend before Parliament as to why they are always below the threshold."
}