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    "id": 1354498,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1354498/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " This is the Third Reading and I want also to commend the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Having said that, it is good to put the record straight now that we have passed the Appropriation Bill. We have just appropriated Ksh24 billion in the name of stabilising oil. The Stabilisation Fund is supposed to come from the Petroleum Development Levy. It is not supposed to come from taxes or the Consolidated Fund. It is not an exchequer vote. Let us call a spade a spade. What we are doing is creating a subsidy. We are subsidising petroleum products with Ksh24 billion. Otherwise, we should not have appropriated it in the Appropriation Bill. We should have taken it from the Petroleum Development Levy. If we have exhausted the levy, let us tell Kenyans that Parliament has passed a subsidy of Ksh24 billion to subsidise diesel, petrol, kerosene, and all manner of petroleum products. It is very good. Let us not run away from it. All countries in the world subsidise for their citizens. Let us not shy away from that fact. If Uhuru did it, it was for the benefit of the people of Kenya. He was not doing it for his wife, mother or children. Let us agree today as a country. Let us say that the new Government has seen the light of day. The new Government has seen that subsidies are the right way to go."
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