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    "id": 1082677,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1082677/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 90,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
    },
    "content": "We have taxes that we, sometimes, impose on things like wood. There was a Motion that we brought here that we need to exempt wood and timber products from taxes because we want to conserve the Mau, Aberdares and our forests since we are at 1.7 per cent forest cover. We need to conserve those forests. How do we conserve those forests and yet, construction and building is still going on in Kenya? Those people need timber and yet, you are levying high taxes on timber that could have otherwise been imported from Congo Forest, Uganda or Rwanda. Imagine timber coming into Kenya. It will assist us in manufacturing. It will save our forests. It will bring rains because we will save our forests. It will bring food security. It will employ so many youths. It may make us export timber products because we have so many carpenters that we have trained in our TVETs. We really have to think of ways of collecting more funds. The issue of taxes must be very broad. It cannot be broad when we are overtaxing those manufacturers and small enterprises that are here and they prefer going to Uganda or Tanzania and then they sell us the finished product. I have heard of investors who have huge sums of money to invest in Kenya, but they prefer other countries. What is so difficult in us saying that every investor who can invest USD 1 billion will be..."
}