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    "id": 394647,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "actually the opposite. The proposed Bill will assist in terms of rewarding those who will be philanthropic enough to assist special causes in society. This is a very important Bill. I think with further consultations, the Committee needs to incorporate a public communication strategy so that we have a way of communicating to the public to realise the importance of legislating philanthropy and rewarding those who give. In one of the American universities where I studied, there is a department called School Development where the university would call upon the alumni to support in building of classes or libraries and other facilities. You will find that sometimes someone would call back and say: “I would like to make a donation to build a whole library.” As a result of that, there is a mechanism within the country where they would have tax exemptions. Such mechanisms should be put in place so that alumni of various institutions in the country or people from some villages who have migrated to the city can have an opportunity to give back to those places where they benefited from and assist the society."
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