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    "id": 1441685,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441685/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Malava, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "I appreciate the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. There was an issue with e-TIMS invoicing. I am a host of two sugar-producing factories in my constituency. Butali Sugar Mill and West Kenya Sugar Factory. Directors of the two factories came to my home complaining about what eTIMS means to farmers. They argued that it would be double taxation to farmers if they did this. The cost will be pushed over to them. The whole process of developing eTIMS was a cumbersome one. Most farmers who are illiterate could not manage. I appreciate the Chairperson because when I called him, he asked me to tell them to come and make their presentations. They did. I am happy. I want to tell farmers that e-TIMS has been struck off. The tax on transport of cane from farms to factories has also been struck off. This cost could have been passed over to farmers. I am telling the people of Malava, who I represent, that there is no need for me to reject this Finance Bill. It is the best for us as a country. We have also asked for so many things. I remember when the Cabinet Secretary was making a presentation on the Budget here. We applauded for many things like electricity connections, because they are good for us. This is the moment to raise funds for those connections to our villages."
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