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    "id": 1099449,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "critical sectors of the economy due to high fuel prices, especially at this time of the pandemic. As you are aware when there is an increase in fuel prices matatu and bodaboda o wners normally transfer the burden to commuters. (2) State the reason fuel prices in Kenya have been on the rise in the past months yet EPRA and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has done nothing to stabilize the prices and cushion Kenyans as provided for by the Petroleum Development Levy Fund. Instead they wait and surprise Kenyans with abnormal overnight fuel increases. (3) State the status of the Ngamia I oil drilling by Tullow Oil Company in Turkana County and the total amount of funds collected by Government from the export of the oil and its significance to Kenyans which should include stabilization of oil prices. (4) Explain why fuel prices are much higher in Kenya compared to landlocked neighbouring countries such Uganda yet they collect the fuel from our port in Mombasa. As you are aware, most of this pricing are half. Eight per cent goes to VAT (Value added Tax) which is a half of the taxation that is there. This is due to the operationalization of the Finance Act, 2018 and the Tax Law Amendment 2020, as recommended by the Energy Committee of the Committee of the National Assembly. This is an urgent matter. Kenyans are suffering as we talk. Almost a half of Nairobians are walking because they cannot board a matatu or boda boda; because increase in fuel prices means an increase in fare. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you and I come from a region where farmers depend on diesel to plough their land. If the price of diesel increases, it means the prices and costing of food production will go very high. The high prices are being transferred to farmers in Bungoma, Trans Nzoia and where I come from."
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