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    "id": 1252749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1252749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "We do not want our hustlers to die. We will speak for them. They are suffering enough. We cannot allow this Bill to continue hurting them more than that. We have heard it being mentioned here that Kenya is not highly taxed because Tunisia and Morocco are taxed more. That is because their GDP is higher. How do you compare Kenya with some of those countries? The average salary in Tunisia is Ksh176,000 a month. It is Ksh187,000 in the Republic of South Africa. The average salary in Morocco is Ksh263,000 shillings a month. The average salary of a Kenyan is Ksh22,000. How do you compare light and darkness? Hon. Speaker, let us speak the truth. When I listened to the Kenya Kwanza team speaking during campaigns, they talked about raising hustlers. There is a proposal to tax welfare groups in this Finance Bill. Welfare groups are the chamas of our women. They put money together to do table banking of Ksh1,000 each. They put it together and then a member takes it. Now, this team wants to tax that money. This team wants to make money from those women who have worked hard - the hustler women of this country. I mean the mamamboga and the bodaboda . Can you people be fair to Kenyans? Hon. Members, let us all stand up and oppose this Bill. Voters are watching. I can tell you that those you respect will not pick up your calls when you lose the next election. By then, we will even have fought those Cabinet Administrative Secretaries (CAS) positions and removed them. They will no longer be there. Members, please, let us vote wisely."
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