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    "id": 1498175,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "As I said and in conclusion, the Bill gives effect to Article 209(5) of our Constitution. This is to ensure that taxation and other revenue powers of a county shall not be exercised in a way that prejudices national economic policies, the economic activities across our regions in the country and the boundaries in our region outside the country do not in any way inhibit national mobility of goods, services, capital or even labour. Counties can even impose fees that limit how people move. In some counties, you may lack labourers who do certain chores probably because of cultural reasons. People from one county may not do certain chores unless through the labour mobility of moving people from other counties. You may even find counties imposing restrictions on how people move. We want to ensure that there is national mobility of labour and capital. There must be mobility of capital for all our counties to prosper and grow. There must be mobility of goods, services and labour. That is why some of us never believed in the politics of dividing our country along regional, ethnic or county boundaries. For instance, we believe that the people of Kilifi need the people of Kericho to feed them. Probably, the people of Kericho need the people of Kilifi moving their capital from the Coast to invest in Kericho and grow food that can get back to feed their people in Kilifi. We are speaking to those issues in this Bill. We should grow our country by allowing free mobility of goods and services, and capital and labour so that Kenyans from across all corners of our country can feel free to go and invest anywhere. The beautiful beaches along the shores of Lake Victoria impressed me during my last visit to Hon. Bensuda's Homa Bay County. I was impressed that the people of Homa Bay are very aggressive in fishing. However, I noticed there is a deficiency in tourist resorts along the beaches of Lake Victoria. I imagined the days I had some money and I would have been a very good close friend of Hon. Bensuda to make sure she gives me part of her assets near the lake to invest in tourist-class holiday resorts."
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