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    "id": 1537583,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1537583/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Where do we go? We need to pump some sense to our governors. You cannot overtax Kenyans. In Nairobi, we have retirees in Kilimani who used to pay rates of Kshs7,000. Now, the demand note for this year is over Kshs50,000. Where do these Kenyans go? The unfortunate thing is that you are taxing Kenyans without provision of services. If you ask the retirees, they have never known anything called garbage collection by the Nairobi City County Government. They buy bottled water to drink. There are no train services from where they live to town. Go to Gikomba Market and look at the state of the road and conditions under which those poor Kenyans are doing their businesses. There is no water. When they go to hospitals, there is no medicine, yet we are taxing them. As elected leaders, we are the only ones who can speak for the voiceless people because they have no voice. The only voice they have is through their Senators. Do we sit back and watch the Governor of Kisumu introduce 10 per cent rates on properties to those poor residents of Kisumu County? We must do something. I do not know which committee we look into this matter, but we need to be serious and look for a solution. Pay as you earn has a cap. However, for rates, whether you are poor or rich, once the county says you should pay 10 per cent, you have nowhere to run to."
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