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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "its effect to the economy, society and health would be. I said that it would require us to invest a lot, not just in the economy or socially. We did not know we would have a lockdown when I was speaking. What has happened now? I told the Government that there is a difference between saying we want to be good because the world is in difficulties; and we want to be good including relieving people in paying money whose effects they do not realise, but which are important to the Government. I am happy that the Government now realises that Hon. Ichung’wah, Hon. Kimunya, a few other Members and I were right. This is a source of revenue we could ill afford to reduce. We are now in a situation where we are not able to fund essential services and we do not know when this situation is ending. We now have reduced time for trade, among other things. However, we now have the option, as the Leader of the Majority Party has said. Our option would be to borrow. We also know the pressures of repaying those loans, a cry we have been having before. Let me thank the Government for this realisation and boldness and courage to say, as the leadership of the House; that we can make amends to sustain our nation and the economy. Let me request my brother, Hon. Ichung’wah, that we are always being watched live because we are the constant north of the nation. We are the leadership of the nation. The same way he made the painful decision to say: “In as much as we are pushing this Bill through, it will push our nation to the corner.” That is the same stand it takes even today. It cannot be inconsistent. In leadership, it is populist and very nice to appear good to the public. However, ultimately, when the Government collapses because we never made the right decisions, more so decisions which are subject to approval by this House, we will all collapse. With those few remarks, I request my colleagues that what has been proposed in this Bill and Regulations are the right things to do. I support and urge my colleagues that we provide leadership and support this Bill with the speed of a jet."
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