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    "id": 1231266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to congratulate Sen. Wambua for coming up with this very important issue. As you all know, our Government is keen on everybody paying taxes. For this reason, I request the Committee to do us a favour. If you just give us figures for the last six months, yes, they will be figures, but they will be flat and stale. We need information that can give us an opportunity to do a bit of comparative understanding. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this reason, I want to request that I ride on that Statement so that they should backdate the collection of taxes by at least six months. In so doing, we will now have figures that we can compare and see whether we are agreeing with Sen. Cherarkey that we are improving or we are doing worse than we are supposed to do. More importantly, that information should include if there are any companies that were supposed to have been paying taxes and did not pay; with special emphasis to companies belonging or connected to people who are politically correct. Should the Committee have any difficulty, they are free to invite me so that I propose some of the names of the companies that Kenyans are worried that have not been paying taxes. We want to know. If you are naming Keroche because Sen. Tabitha Keroche is here, I will also be telling them to give us tax returns for companies like East African Spectre, Brookside, NCBA and other companies. This is our country. I have paid tax from the time I was 18 years old and it is not an offence for me to expect that my other fellow Kenyans have also been meeting their tax obligations like I have. Armed with this information, we will then be in a position to know, as a House of equity, what these people owe Kenya so that we make sure that they pay the taxes that they defaulted in paying."
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