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    "id": 1382919,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Keroche",
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    "content": "It is not about the taxation. It is the ease of doing business. That is what people are suffering from. Every day, industries are being closed. Yesterday, you saw the headline that in Nakuru County, for the last 10 years, we have been closing industries. I am worried if we continue this way, we will continue to close more industries. So, the collection of taxes is neither here nor there. Are we able to sustain the businesses in this country? Are we going to ensure that there is ease of doing business in this country to attract both local and foreign investors? So, the problem is not taxation. It is to ensure that doing business in this country is favourable, affordable, easy and attractive rather than, making it harder. That is why people keep on talking about taxation. It is not about the taxation; it is about the ease of doing business. I have just looked at my phone and saw that to fight the illicit brews, I have to remove the 250 ml and put 750 ml. What science is that? Which science are we applying? Then I saw that they have closed the second generation and have remained with the first generation. When you see the explanation of first generation and second generation, that you can extract ethanol from the non-crop. That is science. I know Senators may not understand. Ethanol comes from the food crops, for example, sugarcane and fruits. So, I do not understand where we can get ethanol that is not coming from a crop. The illicit non-compliant companies operating on a day-to-day basis are affecting the compliant ones. We need to ensure compliance is done, rather than now talking of the packaging, the second generation, or the first generation. We confuse the whole business. So, it is how do we ease---"
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