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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi South, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Mawathe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I oppose this Bill. The amendments that were tabled last evening are worse than what was previously in the Bill. The original Bill aimed at raising Ksh308 billion. The amendments that were tabled last night targets to raise Ksh386 billion. I know that a few tax proposal, like that on bread, were removed. We have never had taxes on bread. So, when you say that you are removing taxes on bread, you are just withdrawing your proposal. We are not doing any favour to Kenyans. This Bill is punitive to mwananchi . The new amendment that was tabled last evening introduces a fuel levy of Ksh9 per litre. When you increase the cost of fuel, the prices of all the other commodities that are transported using motor vehicles will go up. The cost of living for the common mwananchi will go up. We have increased taxes on imported finished items. In most households, majority of the items, starting with cookers, television and other items which are not necessarily electronics, including in this room, other than wooden items, are all imported. So, we will increase the cost of living for the common mwananchi . I have heard a few people congratulate the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. I congratulate Generation Z for coming out in large numbers to express themselves. What is sad was seeing that they were arrested. They have the freedom to assemble. They have freedom of expression. They should be allowed to express themselves, and not necessarily to be arrested. Generations Z, X and millennials are yet to be registered as voters. You need to register them so that we can have the right people who will listen and side with mwananchi . You know what to do in 2027 to anybody who does not side with the mwananchi . For the Generations Z, X and millennials who participated yesterday, the work is not done. The most important work happens tomorrow when we shall be voting as a House. You must continue to put pressure and not let off the item on the grass. You must sit there with a pen and paper, and if anybody votes to put a noose around your neck, you write down their name and declare that they must go home in 2027. Anybody who votes to finish you here by putting a noose on your neck tomorrow and finish Kenyans, you must have a list of them so that come 2027, they go home because we must have a Parliament that supports and stands with the common mwananchi . With those remarks, I oppose."
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