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    "id": 1004836,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1004836/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker there is a baraza here from Nyandarua. He said we were going to lose Ksh 80 billion in the Budget and that the move was not going to help Kenyans. We reduced the VAT from 16 per cent to 14 per cent. We reduced the corporate tax from 30 per cent to 25 per cent. As we speak now, let us not tell Kenyans lies. If this Bill is signed with this re-committal going through, it means at the stroke of a pen when the President assents to it, unga will be zero- rated. It is for a fact. What we are discussing here is the period. It is up to us as a House to either increase or decrease the period. We can even make it three months. Hon. Speaker, let us not mislead Kenyans that unga will not be zero-rated. When the Bill goes for assent, I am guaranteeing people that unga will be zero-rated. Secondly, we have seen legislations made here in this House that have only benefitted businessmen and not Kenyans. So, we must balance the two. We must tell businessmen the time or period we will give them to zero-rate. This is because, when we zero-rate on the other side, the Government of Kenya is going to lose taxes. You can see the revenues have gone down because of COVID-19. If you do a blank cheque that you can zero- rate because he has already told us that we have lost Ksh80 billion, we will have a hole that nobody will fill. Hon. Speaker, I plead with Members that unga is zero-rated for a fact. What we are doing is splitting hairs and playing to the gallery. That is not the way to do politics of the opposition. I am a veteran. I slept in Kasarani for five days because of opposing the Government. There are other ways of doing it and I am going to teach Hon. Ichung’wah how to do it. One way is to go and ask for a rally in Kibra and tell Kenyans how bad Jubilee Government has done things but not on this one. On this one Hon. Ichung’wah, you got it wrong. So, please, wait. I will teach you how to do opposition politics. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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