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    "id": 1102509,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to join the petitioners, Hon. Mule from Matungulu and the other petitioners. I remember the issue of prices of fuel came to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning when I was a Member of the Committee, and as a Committee we had declined the 16 per cent VAT. We had said that it should have been zero-rated. Due to a memorandum, it was reduced from 16 per cent to 8 per cent. We need to rethink the memorandums that are brought to this House because we cannot overturn any law. Getting two-thirds is very difficult. We only got two-thirds when we were voting for the Building Bridges Initiative. Otherwise, we have never been able to do anything prior to that. On 14th October 1968, the price of fuel was Kshs15 for five gallons. That time, we did not have fuel in the country. We do not have it now because what we are getting from our oil fields cannot be commercially extracted. I think the money we have put into Tullow Oil is a waste. If that oil cannot be extracted to get fuel, then there is no point in having it. We need to bring the taxes down. You have given an order that within 14 days, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning should bring a report, and a draft Bill, to the House. After bringing a draft Bill to the House, it will still have to go through public participation. So, it will not assist what we are doing. We need to ask the National Treasury, together with the Ministry of Energy, to use the Petroleum Levy Fund to compensate and reduce the fuel prices. We also need to ask the National Treasury not to implement the Excise Duty coming at the end of this month which will again raise the prices of fuel. We need to move fast before the end of this month because the 14 days will end in two weeks and, at that time, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will implement the Excise Duty on fuel. The fuel prices will go up again and whatever we are talking about today will come to naught. We need to reduce the price of fuel as soon as tomorrow."
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