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    "id": 1051864,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "We are talking about 0.6 per cent economic growth in this financial year without proposing serious measures that inject a stimulus that this year we will move to 5.4 per cent. I am not sure the Committee interrogated what measures are being proposed for that jump from 0.6 per cent to 5.4 per cent because that is our work. We should interrogate and propose that, but we are in the fourth quarter. Is seven per cent growth in 2021 plausible? I am not sure because COVID-19 is not done. You will remember that last year, His Excellency the President did a good thing to cushion Kenyans. He reduced Pay As You Earn (PAYE), Value Added Tax (VAT), Corporate Tax and many others. However, those provisions that would have cushioned Kenyans were lifted on 1st January, 2021. We expect to reach seven per cent growth, but I do not see the connection. That is what we should have asked as the Committee on Finance and Budget."
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