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    "id": 1347099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marsabit County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naomi Waqo",
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    "content": " I congratulate Hon. Kimani for bringing it to this House. I would like to encourage our young people because any time Hon. Kimani does his work diligently as the Chairman, I am encouraged. We have many youths who can emulate and be inspired by him and see some of the good work they can do to serve this country in the best possible way. I support the policy because it offers solutions to the ailing tax system by promoting equality in tax administration and providing policy guidelines. At the moment, many Kenyans are crying because of taxation and everybody is talking about it. In the past, we did not have good policies in place that guarded our interests. But once we put this in place, then we will protect our citizens and also take care of ourselves in many ways. In this policy, we have also seen that we have a huge untaxed informal sector that the Government can tap into by having innovative ways to increase the tax collection. This will help us because we know that Kenya has suffered in the past due to a lot of borrowing and debts that Kenya Kwanza Government is now paying. We have a lot of things that we need to put into consideration. If we have this policy in place, we will be able to collect taxes even from the informal sectors that we are currently not taxing hence sustain our country. There is nothing as good as self-sustenance. As Africans, we have in the past depended a lot on grants and begging. However, our country can set an example to others by sustaining ourselves, giving support to the citizens, living a better life, giving best education to the young ones and serving the elderly and the vulnerable well. Nothing else can be better than that. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support."
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