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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am very well- guided. Thank you for highlighting that for me. I will just put my thoughts across. If there is some time left, I will be magnanimous enough to donate it to any other Member who will be keen to contribute to this, so that I can make time for more Members to contribute. The two issues that I raised earlier were on taxing pensioners and the issue of the digital economy. Where we impose taxes on those two groups of people, we shall be punishing pensioners who are really busy trying to make ends meet. We shall also be punishing the youth who are trying to make a living out of new and emerging technologies, if we go on to tax digital platforms, the digital economy and any other businesses that are being carried out online. After punishing our pensioners and our youth, we shall then be dealing a blow to the women of this country when we go ahead and increase the tax on LPG gas. We are at a time when we are trying to run big campaigns to convince our people that it is not prudent to use charcoal. It is not prudent to use firewood and all the incumbent health hazards that come with wood and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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