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"speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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"content": "petroleum price stabilisation fund which stabilises the prices. Prices will keep on fluctuating beyond our control. Secondly, at any given time, we must allow free market economies to come into play. We cannot control the margins. Let the markets set the margins. Let the players in the market set competitive prices based on the estimated throughput sales. We cannot continue setting margins for private players. On the issue of LPG gas, we have no choice but to remove the VAT. The alternative is to continue decimating and destroying our forests which have very serious consequences on climate change. I do not want to belabour the point, but I want to make two things clear. It is this Parliament that makes laws. We are the ones who increased the VAT from 0 per cent to 8 per cent. Those who are currently pontificating were in this House when that happened and did nothing. They are the same people who moved and marshalled Members to change this thing. Since it is politically expedient, we look for easy punching bags who are innocent Kenyans who suffer because of the kind of actions that we made. Issues of inefficiency in the oil sector need to be addressed. I invite the Departmental Committee on Energy to sit with the Ministry of Energy and other stakeholders and deal with demurrage and system losses and other issues that continuously contribute to high fuel prices in this country."
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