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    "id": 419193,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chepkwony",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I stand to support the Motion. The amendment proposed is going to be very beneficial to Kenyans. First of all, I want to talk about the fishing nets. The fishing nets are really helping wananchi because nowadays many Kenyans eat fish. Red meat is not good for our health. So, by reducing or removing VAT on fishing nets, it will benefit our fish farmers. Secondly, I want to appreciate the proposal to remove VAT on mosquito nets. Where I come from, Kericho; we used to have fatal cases of malaria. However, since the introduction of mosquito nets the problem has reduced. We used to have malaria epidemics during the months of June and July but that is now a thing of the past. The number of patients suffering from malaria has reduced significantly because of sleeping under mosquito nets. We are saying that we should also have pesticides but know the side effects of DDT, which was used a long time ago. If DDT is re-introduced in place of mosquito nets, we will have a lot of problems with that pesticide. Therefore, the proposal to remove VAT on mosquito nets will greatly benefit our people. Again, removal of VAT from animal feeds is beneficial to the farmers. In our area in the 1970s and 1980s, we had two big factories to which we supplied milk; these were Sotik KCC and Premiere at Kabianga Junction. We used to supply a lot of milk to those factories but when the cost of feeds went high, everybody left rearing of animals, especially cows. These days nobody is rearing them, because the cost of feeds is very high. So, removing VAT from animal feeds will really encourage the farmers to have more animals and produce more milk. These days, milk is imported into our country, not because we cannot rear animals but because animal feeds are very expensive."
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