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    "id": 36156,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/36156/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let this House also take due note that the Government has attempted to deal with this matter through tax breaks. Both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance did announce certain tax relief measures in this House; reducing duty on diesel and zero-rating kerosene, but the Kenyan consumer has not felt the effect of those taxation measures at all. The other thing to note is that whereas the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) was intended to be some kind of buffer for the consumer and ensure that the consumer is not exploited by exponentially high prices at the pump, what has resulted in that regulation is that prices have risen more steeply with the ERC intervention than when it was open competition. What that then proves is that there are certain inherent weaknesses even in the policy formulation and implementation by the Government for this sector. What the ordinary Kenyans want to see is how the burden can be lifted. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, from the work of the Committee, there have been complaints about cartels and the possibility of price fixing through collusion"
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