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    "id": 397654,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you. I just want to make a brief comment. The issues that have been raised by my colleagues about amendments to Bills involving taxation – amendments just appearing on the Floor of the House without Members being prepared should be taken seriously. Issues of taxation are very delicate and they touch on the poorest of the poor in Kenya. I want to remind my colleagues that we may be thinking that we are doing service to ourselves but we are not. Some of the most acknowledged leaders in the world include Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India and Luiz Inacio Lula De Silva, the former President of Brazil. There is one thing in common among the two, that both of them were former peasants. If we continue this way, we are going to give the impression that some of us who are in leadership have no idea of what the poor people of Kenya go through. It is something that we have to take very seriously so that we do not gloss over issues of taxation when the majority of people in this country are actually very poor and can hardly make ends meet. That is my comment."
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