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    "id": 1123383,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1123383/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion. It is only in the last two years that I have realised how expensive what we call substitute is and how much tax has been added instead of being reduced. The mothers who are unable to breastfeed and I know of many cases are totally unable to meet the Ksh1,000 plus per tin, despite the National Treasury and Ministry promising us in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning that they would reduce the VAT to nil. They lied to us and brought it through the back door. At this moment in time, the simple alternative to breast milk, infant formula, the cheapest is Ksh700 a tin, whereas in Europe the same tin which is imported from Singapore sells at between Ksh250 to Ksh350. Kenyans are suffering because the National Treasury feels that this is a rich man’s product. It is not. It is a poor person’s product. The poor person’s product is now charged excessively. As such I wish to support any proposal which will regulate and support the production and marketing of infant formula for less and to be taxed less. I can afford it. For my four children it costs me in the region of Ksh70,000 a month. Divided by four it comes to about Ksh15,000 to Ksh18,000 for one child. How can somebody who is unable to produce breast milk afford it? I support six such women who are unable to feed their children. We are told malnutrition affects children between the ages of one month to two years. After that they will have stunted growth and nothing can happen."
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