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    "id": 102487,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/102487/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
        "slug": "judah-ole-metito"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir for giving me this opportunity to also add my voice on this Motion which I support. I also want to congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for the way he ably presented the Budget. On taxation, I would like to comment on three or four measures that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has taken which I would like to say are pro-poor and will bring down the cost of services to the common man. First, he lowered tax on imported wheat and rice. This will encourage diversification of food security in this country. We are an agriculturally-dependent economy. However, for a long time, we have been depending mostly on maize. Now that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has taken measures to bring down the cost of wheat and rice, it will open up the food bracket in this country. Even in difficult times, for example during persistent drought, the Government can now give us different relief food like wheat and rice since it will be produced in large quantities and, therefore, readily available to the citizens. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the other measure I would like to applaud the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, the way he has handled it, is with regard to agriculture. As it has been said, agriculture contributes 23 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has"
}