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    "id": 1048440,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1048440/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise under Standing Order No.48(1) to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization concerning the multiple tax payment by lorries and trucks transporting building materials across counties in Kenya. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) State whether the Committee is aware that the transporters of building materials under Swaminarayan Savings and Credit Co-operative Society Limited are being subjected to payment of taxes in all the counties they traverse while transporting building materials; (2) Indicate whether the members of the said SACCO were involved, by way of public participation, in coming up with the taxes leveled on them by the various county governments; (3) Clarify to the Senate whether the said taxes are legally established in the counties and the monies allocated channeled to the county revenue collection account; and, (4) Consider the suspension of these taxes until proper investigations are done on them and a harmonized taxation system on the acquisition and transportation of building materials across counties is adopted. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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