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    "id": 1079815,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "am happy you are looking in my eyes. Reprieve like through the PAYE, the Corporate Tax, or the Income Tax, but definitely PAYE for workers. As we support everybody else and ask workers to take reprieve from what otherwise should have been their rights, which we shall discuss elsewhere, then this is the correct law to propose a raft of measures on how to support workers who are also greatly hit by COVID-19 as we progress. Finally, is the issue of TIVET. The proposal by the Chair looks like it will limit the number of people who will be absorbed within the sector and even the SMEs taking up the recruits of TIVET who are all over the place. We have too many TIVETs. Let us make a law that says that we possibly retain it at 10, so that companies and such businesses are attracted to employ more and compete to get to a figure of 10, so that they can get this reprieve that we are talking about. If we make it too low as to two, then I do not think we shall achieve the original mindset that we had in the creation of that particular amendment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was the issue of tax on confectioneries and I think not many people have spoken on this. Confectioneries have employed many Kenyans and most of them are local industries that make sweets, cakes and chocolates. If we impose serious tax on confectioneries, all we shall do is to lose our people. Our people will lose employment. Therefore, I stand with the Committee on the fact that we should protect the local industries running confectioneries. Lastly, for those musicians who are online, please, let us not tax them. They are young people trying to start businesses online. If we take tax to online platforms, it will hurt them. Please, let us protect the young artists in Kenya who are going that direction. With those many remarks, I want to thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, and I totally support."
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