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    "id": 235297,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/235297/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I would like to remind this House that it just voted for KRA to be legally empowered to collect the money. Having been empowered, where will it take that money? It will take it to the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, wWe are creating a legal channel through which the money will be collected by KRA, which you have voted to collect it. The money will then be voted by this House to go out as grants to the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB). That is a straightforward way of clearing the issue. The amendment is defining the Consolidated Fund within the Sugar Act to make sure that for avoidance of doubt, the Consolidated Fund will have the same meaning as defined in the Government Financial Management Act, for purposes of harmony. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, that is a straightforward amendment, having agreed in principal that the Sugar Levy is a tax that will be collected by KRA, through the Exchequer and be released through the Ministry of Agriculture to the KSB. That is basically what we have agreed on. We are now putting the law to effect that mechanism."
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