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    "id": 1043605,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1043605/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "His Excellency the President said that those tax revisions would be effective up to 1st March next year. What the Chair of the Committee is not telling this House is that the Government is looking for money to fund the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) referendum, which is not a priority. There are only three ways that this House should go to protect Kenyans. One, is to reject these amendments. The second one is to oppose them. The last one is to send them back to sender. I say so because the businesses in this country are still suffering. We need to debate about what we, as a House, will do to ensure that the cost of doing business in this country is fair to all, so that we do not have a situation where factories are closing down their branches and going to open them in the neighbouring countries. We, as a House, are losing it when we begin to think as if we are the Government. Our role is to represent Kenyans and process what is in their minds. We oversee the Government to ensure that whatever it does trickles down to benefit the common mwananchi ."
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