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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ngugi",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwaniki Ngugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I want to make a correction, for the third time, that my names are Mr. David Ngugi, Member of Parliament for Kinangop. Time and again, even the Speaker himself has been confusing me with Mr. Njuguna, who is my neighbour in Lari Constituency. He is a tall man and I am not too tall. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on taxes, which I have risen to support. As a matter of principle, I want to say this. It is very good for people to be self-sufficient. It is very good for people to be able to finance their own activities. There is no other way that a Government can support its own activities other than through its citizens paying taxes. So, fundamentally, paying taxes is a noble thing, and it is everybody's duty, be they the President, Diplomats whom we have sent out there, people in the country, others in the diaspora and ourselves here in Parliament. So, as a matter of principle, I support that we all pay taxes. Having said so, it is always good to see that those taxes are properly used. That is normally where some of us are at variance with those who administer our taxes. We are one of the highest taxed countries in the world and yet, we do not have much development. We should be questioning ourselves as to what has been happening. Where has that money been going? Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is where we come to the issue of corruption."
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