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"speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for also giving me a chance to contribute to this. I thank Hon. Wanga, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the Committee for bringing this Report on the fuel issue that has affected the whole country. The people that we represent are suffering because of the increased fuel prices. I want to pose a question and ask Hon. Wanga and the Committee to carefully interrogate the regulations that the Authority used to hike the prices without the involvement of Parliament or the Government. I thank Hon. Wanga and the Committee for highlighting and showing us the areas that caused this increase like the demurrage. When the Bill comes to this Floor, we are ready to reduce the VAT to zero because one of the areas that is making the fuel prices to go up is demurrage. The KRA should also be looked into. This country belongs to all of us. We want to know where the oil from Turkana goes because I still see trucks carrying oil. The Government has spent taxpayers’ money to drill the oil in Turkana with the intention of reducing the fuel prices in this country. Therefore, the Government should show us how and why the Turkana oil is not fixing the deficiency of oil in this country. It is good for us, as a House, to interrogate all levies as the Chairperson, Hon. Wanga, has highlighted to see whether we can remove the VAT, demurrage and everything else that makes"
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