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    "id": 1116918,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1116918/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to clarify that in 2018, this House sided with Kenyans and stood for zero-rating Value Added Tax on fuel products. It is the President who sent a Memorandum to this House. Therefore, the increase of VAT on all petroleum products is purely because of that Memorandum. I will say this and I have said it before: The EPRA should stop playing to the gallery. They purported to reduce fuel prices by Kshs5 for petrol and Kshs7.28 for kerosene this afternoon. Kenyans expect more than a Kshs5 decrease. Kenyans expect a drastic decrease in the pump prices of fuel products. Our economy is pegged on fuel. Our transportation is purely based on fuel. We need to be serious as a House and zero-rate fuel products, especially the LPG. We cannot tell Kenyans out there not to cut trees to derive fuel from them and, at the same time, place LPG out of reach to ordinary Kenyans. As I finish, we have to interrogate the role of the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK). It was established to be a stabiliser on fuel prices. However, currently, NOCK is now part of the cartel. It is no longer playing the role for which it was established. The reason why we have prices being set by the Government is a clear testimony…"
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