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    "id": 250449,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Syongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 316,
        "legal_name": "Zaddock Madiri Syong'oh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill because if passed, it will improve the cost of living and the cost of doing business. Currently, one of the greatest challenges this economy has is lack of competitiveness. Competitiveness could be improved if we improved the cost of fuel. The rate of inflation is also related to the cost of fuel. For that reason, I would like the Minister to look at this issue in broad terms. He needs to come up with a policy that we can embrace. The second point we need to think about is the cost of fuel, particularly because of May 3, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 875 afforestation. Desertification in this country is a reality. Rainfall patterns are unstable and we have it in less amounts over the years because of serious degradation of our environment. That can be reversed if we review the pressure on the use of wood fuel. The reduction in use of wood fuel would slow down the degradation of our environment. The Minister has talked about his concerns regarding laws of revenue collection. I agree that we can, indeed, broaden the tax rates. The introduction of ETRs will tremendously increase the speed and capacity of revenue collection. I would like to challenge the Ministers to use the monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act to tame oil producers. That is an Act of Parliament which is completely ignored, yet it could be used for taming and equalising revenue between Government, consumers and distributors as far as fuel prices are concerned. Finally, we must intensify exploration of oil as well as coal. Recently, we were told that there is a substantial amount of coal in Mwingi. Those are some of the things we should take seriously. I support."
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