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    "id": 1357291,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1357291/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "African country. Nobody should sit here and pretend as if they were doing any charity work in Kenya. They are here to make money. Therefore, I laud the policies that have been introduced. Finally, on this issue of taxation. Sen. Oketch Gicheru, his team and those that think like him need to read and understand that Kenya’s tax to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio stands at a paltry 17 per cent. If you compare with our peers that we want to compete with such as South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, they are way higher with an upward of 20 per cent. Therefore, we cannot be competing with economies which are not in our region; smaller economies which are doing less than $50 billion GDP. If we are aspiring to be a stronger economy, a middle-income nation by 2030 as espoused in Vision 2023, then this is the right path that we have to accept. There will be temporary pain for permanent pleasure in the future. Therefore, I agree with the decision and the taxation policies that have been introduced. In fact, on these controversial issues of the ID, Sen. Oketch Gicheru, do you know that the Kshs100 has been in existence since the 1900? I took my ID more than 20 years ago and I paid Kshs100. Is it the argument of those that are saying that the Government should not review whatsoever that Kshs100 that even the factors of production alone can inform? It might not be the Kshs2000 that is being proposed. However, we must agree. I do not expect a President that I elected into office to go to China to beg for money for printing IDs for my children if I can pay for the same. There must be a review."
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