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    "id": 1347078,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1347078/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": "Today, the NSE tinkered with certain regulations so that they can maintain those already in the net because everybody is getting out. This is something that they ought to have done immediately a few companies started getting out of the scheme. Therefore, the National Dialogue Committee, which has given certain recommendations, some of which have been trashed by this administration, if given an opportunity, could have brought forth workable ways of addressing the perennial challenges that we experience as a country. No country can develop through taxation and I do not know where this Government learnt that a country can only move through taxation. One fundamental thing that you must do is to widen the manufacturing sector, not heaping a lot of taxes on an already taxed populace. When these taxes continue to shift from one taxation regime to another, no investor wants to come to a place where there is no certainty. All what investors would want, first and foremost, is stability then certainty, in terms of taxation. When we have to change and reposition all our taxation regimes, then that portends great danger to this country. It is quite absurd that those in Government, and I am taking a tangent from my very initial statement, tend to block their ears on the plight of every Kenyan, including very good ideas that they should have benefited from. Today, when we talk about this, they say we belong to the opposition, as if this country belongs to only Kenya Kwanza. When we are suffering, everybody is suffering. Lately, I have seen what is happening in Rift Valley where cabinet secretaries cannot be given an opportunity to address any gathering. They are not talking to those cabinet secretaries; they are talking to their appointing authority that they are tired of him and his taxation regimes. Something must happen. Whether this Sessional Paper will address it, I do not know, but as every other Kenyan, I am equally very pessimistic. Thank you."
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