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    "id": 1252910,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I support this Finance Bill as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and as a Member of Parliament for Baringo North. There are bustling events that have happened. One, yesterday we considered the Estimates Vote by Vote and approved the expenditure part of the budget, knowing very well that this budget shall be financed by ordinary revenue that will be collected through the Finance Bill. Hon. Speaker, it is very illogical to attack the Finance Bill that tries to raise revenue to finance this country’s budget. We are all Kenyans, regardless of the political divide we come from. The budget we passed, clause by clause, yesterday, has programmes that cut across the Republic of Kenya. How then do we finance these programmes if not by using our resources? I am a believer of Kenya. I believe this country shall move to become one of the strong economies of Africa. How did successful countries finance their programmes? We can never develop this country using borrowed resources. Time has come for us to finance this country using our own resources, which calls for sacrificing a little bit for the nation. There were about 1,500 Petitions to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. For the first time, I sat for more than 20 days trying to listen to professionals of high calibre argue from left, right, and centre, on issues raised in the Finance Bill. We, as a Committee, made some proposals. I even wonder that my good friend, Wandayi, did not read that we made a proposal that tax on wigs, eyelashes, and everything like that be deleted. We made a proposal that this must be deleted to protect the hustlers of this country. Many Kenyans who came before us felt that this is a very bad clause."
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