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    "id": 1373911,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373911/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Because there is no time, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will have to continue next time. I do not want to finish my time now. I do not want to stop. I still have my five minutes now. I want to say very clearly and categorically that you should look at this Bill critically. You are simply taxing Kenyans. It is taxation. We have fines, fees, taxes and levies. What the Government of Kenya is doing is fining Kenyans who are employed. The Government of Kenya is fining Kenyans who are employed at the rate of 1.5 per cent. Why levy or fine employees of this country? What have they done to the Kenya Kwanza Government that they should be fined 1.5 per cent of their gross salary to provide houses which they do not need? If you want these Kenyans to be philanthropic, there is a way of enforcing philanthropy. You cannot force people to be philanthropic. You have to persuade them in church, by preaching to them so they get converted and understand they have a social responsibility to take care of other Kenyans. Since the Government which is taxing them is eating the money that is supposed to provide these services to, now they want ordinary Kenyans to contribute money to a fund and help other Kenyans get money. This is simply philanthropy, if that is what they want."
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