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    "id": 387662,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/387662/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "Fifty years ago, we started building a nation with the aim of eradicating illiteracy, disease and poverty. I am happy the amendment just passed is an endavour to eradicate disease. His Excellency the Retired President Mwai Kibaki started Free Primary Education (FPE) through which we have raised so many children from poverty. I have been a teacher for the last eight years, and something that I wish to note is that FPE has changed the life we have been nurturing down there. First, the text books, exercise books and chalks which we have been receiving under the FPE have been tax exempt. They have not been taxed for the last ten years. That is how, using allocation of the FPE, we have been able to buy books and chalks for the In the same way, we have been supporting children to go to colleges under the bursaries that we have passed. We have been able to purchase, for instance, a book of medicine which costs up to Kshs15,000 or Kshs20,000 each. Over the fifty years, textbooks, exercise books and chalks have not been taxed. If we pass this amendment, it would mean these books which have not been taxed for the last fifty years will now start to be taxed. My amendment is that we include textbooks in the endavour to boost education of the children of this country. In my constituency, I have been donating books for the last eight years. Through the board of education welfare, we have been able to produce the best candidate in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), that is Joe Kinoti, who was at Friends Academy; simply because we source for the best revision books in this country. A decent KCPE revision book currently goes for about Kshs700 and if you introduce taxation, it will double."
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