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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohammed",
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    "content": " I want to support the amendments raised by all the seven Members. We have just raised taxes of salaries to 35 per cent. We are again, telling the people who are earning over Ksh800,000 to pay 3 per cent of housing levy and 2.5 per cent of NHIF. In the end, that person is going to pay 40 per cent of his salary to taxes. It is good that the Leader of the Majority Party is here. This housing levy has reminded me of something. One time in this House, we passed another levy called the Railway Development Levy. When it was brought here under a Finance Bill like this one, we were told that this is a levy that is going to be very good, and we were going to use it to repay the loans that we had taken from China for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Three years later, an amendment was brought here by the then Leader of the Majority Party, just like Hon. Ichung’wah has. He then recommended opening up of that Fund for any use. We reminded him that we had just passed it in the House for purposes of repaying the loan on the SGR. How then was it possible that the money was going to be used elsewhere? We are going through the same route. What goes around comes around. What is going to happen is that money is going to be collected in the name of housing, but it is going to be used for other things."
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