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    "id": 1441172,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441172/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " Thank you, Madam Speaker, for giving the people of Elgeyo Marakwet an opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill 2024. First of all, is it at times very dishonest or very ignorant for Members of Parliament, who would want to celebrate the increase in the NG-CDF and NGAAF and other funding for maybe electricity and water, to evade telling Kenyans where the money is supposed to come from? I think there is a misconception in the public, especially Generation Z. They do not understand that the Finance Bill is there to enable the budget to be implemented. We cannot purport to implement the budget without knowing where to get the money from. For Generation Z to get jobs, we need to impose a tax on imported goods so that we encourage our local manufacturers to produce and employ the youth. This tax will ensure that the JSS teachers get employed. Recently, we saw the intern doctors demonstrating. The Government could not raise funds to facilitate and pay them. The only way that this can be realised is by ensuring that we get tax and levies from"
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