{"id":419156,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/419156/?format=json","text_counter":199,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":77,"legal_name":"Esther Murugi Mathenge","slug":"esther-murugi"},"content":"Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I believe I read the VAT Bill - and I think you need to re-check - and sanitary pads are actually taxed. So, you need to remove VAT on them. What we asked the Treasury then is to give us a formula on how we should not do what nature expects us to do, so that we are not taxed. It is actually very punitive"}