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    "id": 1089230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, even getting a simple thing like a licence is difficult in Kenya. If a young person came up with a technological innovation today, the amount of money he will be required to pay to the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) to get a licence is exorbitant. We need to challenge ourselves as legislators and review some of these policies. That is why I sympathise when I listen to people in this country. Sen. Wetangula needs to listen to this carefully. Lately, as a presidential candidate, there has been a debate on how to craft a manifesto. Many people believe that you can lock yourself in a well-furnished, air-conditioned room and come up with all the best ideas on your own and sell to young people. However, there is a new school of thought that is emerging. It says that you sit and listen. It is not that the people you lead do not have the ideas. Perhaps they even have superior ideas to those that we generate year in, year out. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you read through the manifestos of all political formations since 2002, you will realise it is plagiarism. A change of the party name and one or two things only, but it is the same thing we keep on talking about. We have not sat down and asked ourselves, for example, the tax intervention measures that can be provided in such a startup law. I know Sen. Sakaja cannot do this because this is the Senate. However, when this Bill gets to the National Treasury, we have to challenge our colleagues who have jurisdiction on Money Bills and effects on tax policy on what we can do about the tax regime. There is no country that provides a tax regime for well-established multinationals similar to startups as the companies we are trying to promote in this Bill. We must talk about the tax breaks that we are extending to the---"
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