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    "id": 1485449,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485449/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": ", nails and all the things needed for infrastructural development in our country, particularly building materials. When we take one company and give it an undue advantage over the others by removing all the taxes, we first deny the Government the revenue. Secondly, we are discouraging small manufacturers and SMEs. We are discouraging the development of the cottage industry and bringing down the number of young people we can employ in this nation. We are also in the business of weakening our shilling because we need to have the outflow of dollars from this Republic. For that reason, our shilling becomes weaker. The question is: are we strengthening our economy by giving this undue advantage? The other day, we were in this House looking at the issue of the Competition Authority of Kenya, and I am aware that we have approved the name of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). I believe this is one of the things that the Competition Authority of this Republic should be able to look at. We should not have one party, a monopoly, that is getting an undue advantage over other SMEs. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support the idea that the National Treasury must table in this Parliament the guidelines they have used to give these tax waivers to this particular company. If this company was manufacturing in this Republic, and the tax break had been given to a manufacturing company, then it would be understandable."
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