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    "id": 1485407,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "word because he has no idea what other word you have hidden inside there to benefit you afterwards. How will the President read all documents? He cannot. As the technical person, you are the one putting us in hell as a country. Then, all of us will start screaming the way we are screaming about the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). There is a most important thing we must ask ourselves today. I have looked at the submissions by the National Treasury and Economic Planning when they came in. They told the Committee that the Income Tax Cap 470 Paragraph 2(k) of the Third Schedule to the Income Tax Act states that the tax rate shall be to the extent provided in the agreement in the case of a company engaged in business under a special operating framework arrangement with the Government. Now, you can imagine us seated negotiating with a company and it is for you to provide that agreement. There is no NECs there. You are now to protect Kenya at that time. I always say that we have a demon in this House. It is hovering in our bodies. We need to pray to God to help us to remove the “what is in it for me” to do good for Kenya or be patriotic to Kenya. The demon of corruption has become a culture to us. It is hurting Kenyans. That is why construction is expensive. We have to look into our eyes and say it as it is. That is why civil servants come into our offices without the ethics of work because they know they have what they want and they will get what they want in anything. Then you find another Kenyan saying this Government is bad. Yes. It is a bad Government. However, why are you doing business with it? Leave if it is bad. This is very painful. This has to go to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). This has to go there. We must recover money so that other companies trying to look for ways and exemptions can benefit. Even children's homes including mine tried looking for exemptions for us to bring pipes for water and everything, and they denied us getting clean water. We had to go back to Davis & Shirtliff to buy it. I am wondering. This is just a children's home yet a person doing business so well in this country and making good money is still given an exemption. When they finish, they will go to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to claim. That is what is happening. In fact, there is a very sweet business in Kenya right now. Just do big business and walk into KRA with a letter wanting incentives back. That is what big companies are doing here in Kenya. It is unfair to Kenyans who are paying very high taxes. It is time we changed. It is time we had an ethical way of doing work. When given work by the Government, that office is not to auction Kenya. That office is to keep Kenya safe and protect Kenya from people taking advantage of our country. That is why we want to see the PPP programme and the agreement of the PPP project at the airport in this House. We should go through it and tell Kenyans this is how it is. As I finalise, I thank Kawanjiku. I tell him this would continue if he never brought it. It would have been very sad. I end by saying that before we leave this House in December, we should rectify what we have done wrong on the education model and the health insurance. Everyone is wondering what happened to us. I support."
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