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    "id": 246130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Government wants us to approve Kshs171 billion to enable it to render services to Kenyans. Yesterday, I laid some documents on the Table to show that the same Government, which wants us to approve billions of shillings to be spent, is allowing billions of shillings to be siphoned out of this country. The Government is denying Kenyans billions of shillings which have been collected from them through Value Added Tax (VAT) by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). This Government has not told us up to now why they have failed to take any action to deal with that bank and supermarket from November, 2004, when that report was made to the Minister for Finance. Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also want the Government and in particular, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), which was chairing the committee that was responsible for these investigations into tax evasion and money laundering, to tell us why it has not been able to take action from November, 2004, yet we are paying the Director of the KACC Kshs2.5 million per month. We are going to approve Kshs631 million for the KACC. The KACC chaired a committee that investigated and found out that billions of shillings are being stolen from this country by Nakumatt Supermarket through Charterhouse Bank, and it has not taken any action. We need a response from the Minister for Finance. First and foremost, he needs to tell us what he is doing to stop this action by these two institutions before he can ask this House to allow him to spend Kshs171 billion of the money that is earned by Kenyans through their sweat. You earn your money through sweat, you pay it out through the VAT, then somebody pockets that VAT and siphons it out of this country! Then the Minister says: \"The Government should kindly be allowed to spend Kshs171 billion\". Why should we allow the Government to spend that money when they are allowing a lot of money to be lost? I am actually recommending that the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade should investigate this matter. It is clear that the Government does not have the spine, will and commitment to investigate this matter."
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