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    "id": 1120686,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "The President must take responsibility. He is the one who introduces all these proposals from the Executive office. We are not against the President when we say so. In any case, he is retiring. We have no business criticizing the President because he is going home but since the politics of the “handshake “came to this country, the Opposition, Parliament and everything died and the Executive has been left ravaging and marauding this county and doing whatever it wants. There is nobody to talk on behalf of the people of Kenya. I commend Sen. Orengo for the courage of sponsoring this Motion because we expect the Leader of Majority to be the one bringing this Motion on behalf of this House. He could not and nobody from his side could get this courage. I thank Sen. Orengo for defying the dynamics of the “handshake” politics and standing with the people of Kenya when it matters. I hope the people of Kenya are listening and watching the moves from Sen. Orengo. Madam Deputy Speaker, this House must put its foot down and demand Sen. Keter and Sen. Munyes to come here and explain themselves even after this censure in the shortest time possible. Failure to that, we will invoke the law. The relevant Committee will fine him. Above the fine, we shall use the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to cause the arrest of the two CSs and the production of the same before this august House. Allow me to say that the causes of these fuel prices are first over taxation. There are eight taxes on fuel which are all very significant. It is not just the Value Added Tax (VAT). There is the VAT, excise duty, anti-adulteration of fuel levy, railway maintenance levy and all manner of taxes which have been imposed of fuel. Eighty to eighty-one Kenya shillings out of Ksh134 is going to taxes. We must bring this down. Secondly, certain policy interventions have caused this fuel hike. It is important for the Committee on Energy to conduct an inquiry to find out what policy interventions other than the tax are causing this fuel hike. This is because the Finance Act of 2018, Section 13 which is the contentious one has been in place since 2013. How come the recent hikes have come even many months and several years after this Section 13 has been put in in place? Thirdly, although I heard my senior, Sen. Wetangula, again trying to deny that the issue of debt is responsible for this taxation. This is because for every Ksh100, Ksh68 to Ksh70 is going to pay debt. Today, I am informed that the Government is now trying to"
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