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    "id": 1056492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1056492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "taxing paying bracket. We need to empower everybody. This BPS does not do that. It needs to move to ensure that every Kenyan has an opportunity to earn a living and in the process pay tax. When he pays that tax, we have lesser borrowing by this Government. That notwithstanding, there are many sectors that have been underfunded, but there are other sectors that have huge budgets. For example, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is getting a lot of money, but nobody is thinking about how to develop Mombasa the same way we are developing Nairobi. We are going to overload Nairobi with very many things and yet the other satellite towns are left out. Other countries like Nigeria have moved to other cities. Other cities have been developed at the same time. If you look at Tanzania today, Dar es Salaam and Dodoma are all developing almost at the same level. What are we doing? We are putting billions of money in Nairobi, developing Nairobi and forgetting that the second city which is Mombasa is shrinking in terms of the economy and investment. We need to develop another city for this country so that we spread the wealth. The wealth in this country is being concentrated in a few areas. When that happens, it means that many people will move to this town and leave the other places and there will be under-development in the Coast Region because Mombasa is being neglected. I would say that the more money we put in the NMS, the more money should go to Mombasa so that it develops to help the economy so that the port city can develop like any other port city in this country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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