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    "id": 1374186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1374186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "With regard to taking care of our people, it will be remembered that I brought a matter on the Floor of the Senate, on the issue of stipend or one-off payment to former councillors. We passed a resolution that at least former councillors that we have, at that time totaling to around 12,000 across the country, be paid at least Kshs 200,000 as a one- off. We passed that resolution. The National Treasury, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Ministry of Devolution and Planning were part of that resolution, but to date, former councillors are dying one after another without that transfer. I am happy that commissioner Sen. Kinyua as just walked in when I was talking about that matter of former councillors. This is because he was part of that conversation. He was one of the Senators that initiated that debate. We challenged the Government in which Sen. Kinyua serves to transfer that Kshs200,000 to the former councilors, because they need that money. Secondly, concerning tax, I am happy that this report recommends that we should review our tax regime downwards. As long as we are operating under a regime that imposes so much tax on people and on businesses, we will not be able to continue to attract direct investment by individuals and our development partners. We should be serious about reviewing the tax policy downwards. I say this fully aware that Sen. Kinyua and Sen. Cherarkey, have perhaps just arrived from Naivasha, where they have been given instructions on a very controversial and infamous tax called the Housing Levy."
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