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    "id": 191963,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/191963/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muthama",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "demonstrating over the high cost of living due, especially, to rising food prices. The Minister should have gone beyond just wheat products, and also zero-rated VAT on other foodstuffs. The Minister also talked about cement. The issue of promoting construction in our country is a matter of great concern. In Egypt, one bag of cement is selling for Kshs70, but in Kenya it is going for Kshs800. If you buy such a commodity now in Egypt, although it is a member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa countries (COMESA), I do not know if Duty will apply. If you take 25 per cent plus shipping cost and other miscellaneous costs, the price will not go beyond Kshs600. That is keeping the common mwananchi quite far from owning a house. If that continues, then those who earn between Kshs20,000 and Kshs30,000 stand no chance of constructing a two-bedroomed house, without a ceiling board, and using only iron-sheets. Such a dream cannot be realised by such wananchi . The Minister also went ahead and waived duty on tractors. He also gave a description of the trucks that are designed to carry garbage. The Minister should have considered the common"
}