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    "id": 1335623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, paying taxes is both a legal and moral issue. The Kenyattas, Mois and all other former presidents need to look at the moral aspect of it and say if other Kenyans are paying taxes, we should pay tax. If you look at the constitutional law they have quoted in this Petition, it is actually inconsistent. In their Petition, they are quoting Article 210(3), which provides that no law may exclude a State Officer from payment of tax by reason of the office held by the State Officer or the nature of the work of the State Officer. The Kenyattas and Mois are not State Officers. Therefore, this law which the petitioner has quoted is actually inconsistent. The Kenyattas and Mois are not State Officers. As you are looking at it, you may dismiss it primafacie on the basis that even what these people have quoted is not the right Article of the Constitution. I would like Hon. Mbai to be guided by that so that he is not seen to be in any way displaying negative energy in his Committee, as Hon. Kaluma has said. The Committee should be guided by the law when making a decision. The Kenyattas and the Mois should be guided by the morality that every Kenyan must pay taxes on their properties."
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