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    "id": 1043777,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1043777/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is good to put the Question quickly, but it is also good to speak on behalf of the people because we are here to represent them. You do recall when we passed this regulation earlier this year, Hon. Kimunya, Hon. Kaluma and myself were on record telling the Government and the National Treasury that what they were doing was not right. Indeed, I remember putting forth the argument that it would have been better to collect the close to Kshs50 billion that we were foregoing and use it to offer social support to those who would be vulnerable courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The danger in reducing VAT rate, as we argued then, was that the same would not trickle down to the"
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