{"id":1260515,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1260515/?format=json","text_counter":421,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Nominated, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. John Mbadi","speaker":{"id":110,"legal_name":"John Mbadi Ng'ong'o","slug":"john-mbadi"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. These amendments make me very excited. I am excited because the Committee listened to me and the entire Azimio One Kenya Alliance on this matter. We were being told that many commodities were being removed from zero-rating to exemption. I am happy that raw materials for pharmaceuticals will now be zero-rated in 147; Pest Control in 148; Raw materials for Pest Control Products, 149; Sugarcane transportation from farms to Milling Factories, 150; Fertilisers, 151; Raw Materials for Manufacture of Fertilisers, 152; and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), 153. I am very excited that these amendments have been carried by the Committee and I support it fully. We are going to zero-rate them when we go to 34. I thank the Committee for listening, and particularly, to me. When I was explaining zero-rating and exemption, many of you listened and understood what I meant. This is going to make life to remain the way it is if this is implemented. How I wish the same happened to the Petroleum Levy."}