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    "id": 1443362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamu",
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    "content": "President of this country, His Excellency, Dr. William Ruto. I believe that the intentions of the President were in the right place with that Bill. I disagree with Sen. Shakila who claimed here that the President is a perpetrator of corruption. It is only that this debate is uninterrupted, so I could not raise a point of order. However, nothing can be further from the truth. The President's intentions are in the right place. In that same Finance Bill, tea packaging had been exempted from the 16 per cent rate that it previously attracted. Eco levy was placed on every finished product, raw materials, potatoes, eggs and onions that comes to this country. These are measures that we should all support. We all agree that the information and the communication team of the President and the Government did not disseminate this information to the ground. I am sure if that had been done, we would have gotten more support. The people who took advantage of our young people to get political scores or aspirations could not have found the kind of number they got from our young people. Speaking of misinformation, I am one of those people who bore the brunt of the misinformation about the Finance Bill, even on social media. I have lost more than 10,000 followers on my Instagram because I was involved in a conversation on my comment section. A lady came to my page asking me how I can support a Bill that proposes to tax sanitary towels. I responded and explained to her that it is not the case. That locally manufactured sanitary towels were not going to attract the eco levy. She further asked me which local sanitary towels I use. I responded to her that I use tampons because I use tampons. That was taken as arrogance. However, this is stemming from misinformation. I have earned myself a new name in this country as “shore for tampons”. You will come across it on social media. They are calling me, “ demu wa tampons” or “ shore wa tampons.” They even reported me to the President when he was engaging the youth on the X space. They told him that some of the leaders under him are very arrogant. They said that I am very arrogant. That was based on my statement that I use tampons. As a result of supporting the Government on the Finance Bill, this is the first time in my life that I am being referred to as arrogant. Those who know me or have had a chance to interact with me will speak of my humility, personality and down to earth nature, which is far from it. If I was misunderstood, because I certainly was, I want to say to the youth and the women of Kenya who got angry because of my statement that I am not going to withdraw because I use tampons. However, I am sorry for angering you. I am one of the fighters of the young generation. I know they were disappointed that I did not join in what they were agitating for against the Finance Bill. It is because I believe in President William Samoei Ruto. It is up to me to convince the young people that our President has the best intentions for this country. I do not have to join in your misinformation. It is up to me as an ambassador of this Government to show and win you over by asking you to be patient because the President is working. He has shown a lot of goodwill so far. He has appointed a task force to audit our public debt, which is one of the reasons we are here today. The Finance Bill, 2024, was tailored to remedy some of those issues such as balancing the public debt and development. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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