{"id":1254447,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254447/?format=json","text_counter":200,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Nyando, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Jared Okello","speaker":null,"content":"was told a similar story that the machine broke down over a year ago and has not been rectified to date. This is the same Government that wants to provide me with a house. Similarly, I tend to look at the squalor situation that our police officers have been living in, 60 years after Independence. Yet, this is the same Government promising me a house in the next seven years. Either there is an absolute appetite for money or great affinity for corruption that will be unravelled within the next few years. I am perturbed that VAT on fuel will increase from 8 to16 per cent. This will have a multiply effect on everything; production, manufacturing and transport. Every sector will have to hike their prices because of this increase. This is something we have to interrogate very well."}