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    "id": 1254517,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254517/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera County, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Umul Kheir Kassim",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to oppose this Bill because of various factors. First, is the digital tax. As a youth representative in this House, it is not fair to young people who have turned out to be content creators to be taxed. The Government tells them there are no jobs, but when they create jobs, we are busy taxing them especially on the digital space. For that reason, I am not for this Finance Bill. Concerning the housing levy, where I come from, yesterday, we lost eight young officers along the Ijara-Burthei Road. It is because we do not have good roads. For the longest time, those people have been paying taxes, but we have not given them roads. Here we are telling them: ‘Forget about roads! We will give you houses! How is that fair? It is not a priority for us. We have houses and we are ready to have our roads built first. Our Azimio side, when we were talking about housing levy, we were not planning to tax Kenyans. Let us not use that as an excuse. We had a better plan. Approach the owners of the idea so that we can tell you how we were going to provide houses. Finally, as a Muslim leader, I find this unfair. It is not fair to place all these burdens on Kenyans. Without fear of intimidation, if we go to the ballot today, Kenya Kwanza leaders are going to see what Azimio one-touch saw in 1906. That Finance Bill is going to fail and it is not going to be an honest point. We know where you stand and you are only scared to come out."
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