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    "id": 1402411,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
        "slug": "richard-ken-chonga-kiti"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will just make a few comments on this Bill. Before I do, I would like to encourage more support to Chairpersons of Committees so that they do not struggle when moving their Bills for Second Reading. I state that as a third-term Member. It is extremely important to support them. This is a very important Bill moved by Hon. Kitany. I listened to her as she moved and the Seconder. The purpose is to ensure that counties do not have different systems of licensing so that we provide as much support as possible to investors. Investors get attracted to a country called ‘Kenya’. As they do their feasibility studies, they realise that Kenya also has counties. At times, they find themselves operating in more than one county. This Bill encourages counties to have a very simple system of licensing, possibly a uniform one, so that they do not struggle. It is very important that it is passed. Investors will invest in different counties without struggling to ensure they follow different systems from one county to the other. I would like to focus on payments, especially levies on roads. When investors are transporting goods, for example, from Nairobi to Kitui, they find themselves paying levies to Nairobi City County. On the way, if they use Mombasa Road they will pay to Makueni County, and then as they cross to my constituency pay levies to Kitui County. Those are three levies. This is a matter that needs to be looked at because it increases the costs of doing business. All these costs are levied on customers. If we have an easier way of making it easier to do business, we will have more investors and ensure our counties grow. Counties will collect more funds and have more development. It is through these companies constructing in our villages that we can get more and more young people employed. This is a Bill that must be supported. Thank you very much for the opportunity. I support."
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