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    "id": 1043564,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "However, that is a discussion that is not before the House. It is not within the Bill. It is something we will have to figure out the framework on how to introduce that in the House and if it makes sense, the House will approve it, but if it does not make sense, then we can defer it to another day. The bottom line is that we are called upon to this House to balance between the expenditure requirements of the country. We all know that we need more and not less. We need more money for infrastructure and create the social distancing in the schools. Even with the vaccines, we are not sure about their efficacy. We are not sure whether the social distance rule will be removed just because people have now achieved hard immunity and yet there are new strains of COVID-19 also coming up. There is a new strain in the UK, the CUV 1, the SUV strain and the variant under investigations that is currently affecting Britain. We do not know what will happen and so we will still be called upon to invest in more infrastructure. We will need to continue the infrastructural needs in the country. We will need to continue paying our medical workers. Those costs have to be met from somewhere and the natural thing is that every Kenyan who is earning an income needs to contribute their fair share. In other countries their rates have even gone up because people recognise those who earn even in this circumstance should contribute to the national good. Hence, let us not look at it like it is a reversal of something. It is a recognition that every country gave the relief for a limited period and now that we have known how to live with COVID-19, let us now get back to where we were and not result to borrowing, going around to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), asking for money to mitigate our issues or balance our books. Hence to live within our means, we can only cut so much expenditure and so we need to increase this revenue."
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