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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to first of all, thank hon. Ng’ongo for bringing this amendment to the House. I want to agree with him that when the VAT Bill was being done, it was supposed to manage the VAT. It was actually not supposed to tax items which had been zero-rated. As we speak and keep on saying, we want to advocate for women and the youth to be entrepreneurs, yet whatever was done in the VAT Bill was self defeating. This is because we all know that women and the youth normally go to do businesses that relate to either keeping cows, chicken and so on. So when you put VAT on the products from animals, then it is self defeating. So, I want to say that all animals’ feed should be exempted from the VAT. Again, if you observe the issue of animal feeds, these have been on the increase for the last 15 years yet a kilogramme of chicken bought from the farmer has remained at Kshs120 for the last 20 years. The youth, therefore, cannot in any way make sense of even keeping the chicken. When hon. Ng’ongo, on Item 20, was talking about sanitary, I hope he was talking about sanitary pads because if it is just the sanitary ware in the house, then I would be very worried because taxing sanitary pads is punitive. The person who did the VAT Bill was being punitive to the women and the girls of this country. He did not give us a formula of how we should not do what nature intended us to do. So, I hope “sanitary” means sanitary pads. I would also want and urge hon. Ng’ongo to go a step further and include sanitary pads as part of the school books that are given in primary schools free of charge."
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