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    "id": 1108576,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108576/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I really want to thank the Chair. I am happy that the Cabinet Secretary for Petroleum and the Principal Secretary for Treasury last week came out and stated clearly that in July last year, the Petroleum Development Levy was at 0.4 per cent per litre. Hon. Munyes, through a Gazette Notice, increased it to Kshs5.4 per litre. The objective of that increment was to use those resources to subsidise the oil marketers not to increase the fuel prices. I want to ask the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, using our Budget Office, to confirm that between last year July and September this year, Kshs31.8 billion was collected and only Kshs8.5 billion was used as subsidy. Nobody knows where the remaining amount of money is. The PS for the National Treasury said we have used only Kshs12 billion for infrastructure projects. In the absence of that, if we have that levy in place to subsidise the oil marketers, then the prices of fuel should come down. We cannot collect Kshs5.4 per litre from ordinary citizens with the objective of subsidising the oil marketers only for the National Treasury to use that money for other purposes. In their Report, I want them to go to the bottom of this matter. For the first time, we have a former Director-General of EPRA in this House, namely; the Member for Bonchari. I am sure he can confirm because when the Gazette Notice was published, he was in the House. He knows what has been going on. So, this is a very important matter, and I am glad that the Committee is on top of it. Let us make sure that the Kshs5.4 per litre that is being collected is used for the intended purpose – to cushion Kenyans from the escalating oil prices globally and domestically. That money should be given to oil marketers so that they reduce or do not increase the fuel prices in our country."
}