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    "id": 1252797,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1252797/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "teacher’s salary, he will need not less than 200 years to be able to acquire a house, yet this person is retiring in five years’ time. So, tell me, who is he saving for or buying this house for? Their grandchildren, great grandchildren or who? Nobody is giving us answers to those very basic questions yet to that poor Kenyan worker in the village, that 1.5 per cent which you are forcing him to fork out can mean a difference between starving to death or surviving. The poor Kenyan workers in the village or here in Nairobi depend on that 1.5 per cent of their salary to put food on the table, buy uniform, pay school fees for their children and all other bills they incur in their day-to-day life. Therefore, this is one of those schemes. In fact, I want to equate it to a pyramid scheme. This housing levy or whatever they are calling it is a perfect case of a pyramid scheme. Kenyans have already said a resounding no to it. Hon. Speaker, I can go on and on. Looking at the case of poor Kenyan women, girls and boys who depend on the saloon and kinyozi businesses, what have they done to them? They have imposed excise duty on human hair, wigs, false beards, eye brows, eye lashes and artificial nails. These people have a bone to pick with poor Kenyans. They do not want our women to be beautiful and our men to be well kempt. They are basically stagnating every poor Kenyan who is struggling. As we speak, those saloons and kinyozis employ hundreds and thousands of Kenyans. If you impose such taxes, you are essentially telling them to engage in other activities. On the one hand, you cannot be condemning alcoholism and drugs and on the other hand removing people from gainful employment and throwing them to the wilderness. What a contradiction this is."
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