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    "id": 1260620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1260620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I rise to support the amendments by the Committee. As the Chairman has said, it is not just bio- ethanol fuel that will make the cost of living more affordable for Kenyans in terms of cooking gas or rather the reduction of VAT on cooking gas or LPG gas. It is also true that when we zero-rate batteries, electric vehicles and electric motorcycles, we reduce the numbers of motorcycles that are using fossil, about which we are all complaining that it is getting expensive. A reduction in demand either from bodaboda riders or other courier service providers who use motorcycles thus encouraging even the use of more green energy with the electric motorcycle, electric buses and motorcars, will not only safeguard our environment in this era of climate change but will help us to reduce our demand for fuel and enable us to save on foreign exchange reserves and consequently bring down the cost of living for millions of Kenyans. To the hustlers, who are being told that they have been abandoned, we are saying it is time to move from fossil fuel-powered engines to electric- powered motorcycles that will be more profitable to operate. Finally, if we look at everything from the prism of politics, we will get it wrong and misinform Kenyans. On issues we have conversed here, like that on helicopter spares, VAT is still payable. What is being removed is VAT on spare parts for helicopters. That is what is guaranteed."
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