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    "id": 1441759,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441759/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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    "content": "You have increased the Import Declaration Fee (IDF) and the Railway Development Levy (RDL), which covers the 16 per cent that you are telling Kenyans you are removing. Secondly, look at the medical imports for the common mwananchi in this country. Our country manufactures very few drugs. We import 70 per cent of our drugs. In the morning, when Hon. Zamzam said that this Bill would increase the cost of medicine in this country, you dismissed her because she probably did not have the facts. Let me give you the facts. 70 per cent of imported drugs in this country will be subjected to RDL and IDF, which you have increased. This means that the cost of medicine for any patient in this country will increase. What is wrong with you people? You think that we are fools. We will tell you the way it is now. I say this without any fear of contradiction. If we increase the Fuel Levy by Ksh7 per litre, through the Road Maintenance Levy (RML) as proposed in this Bill, the common mwananchi like the mama mboga and boda who is living on less than a US$1 per day will not be able to afford their life again. This is not rocket science. The moment you increase taxes on fuel products, you have changed the livelihood of Kenyans. We should not waste any more time. We need to pool and ask the Committee to stop lying to Kenyans, saying that they have removed taxes on bread, edible oil, and all those things they had proposed in the Bill. We call upon all Kenyans tomorrow to wake up and say no to a draconian Finance Bill. The proposed Bill is not giving Kenyans hope through the RDL, the IDF, and the Ksh7 on fuel. Please do not fool Kenyans anymore. We stand with the 52 million Kenyans tomorrow. Until sense comes to your mind, you cannot tax Kenyans anymore. Hon. Speaker, I oppose."
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