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    "id": 419284,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "There is something that we want to emphasize. The Government talks about free primary and secondary education, but learning materials are very expensive. Someone should consider text books and printing materials for zero-rating, so that they are affordable. We are thinking about agriculture and you have heard the issue of sugar-cane transport and so on. It is very unfortunate that in a country like ours, we can produce sugar but we cannot afford it. You have seen what has happened to coffee. If you go to the areas where we produce sugar-cane, you will find that, that is where we have people who are really impoverished. This is because of tax mechanism that the Government has put in place. I think it is for the experts in the Government to advise. This is because I am sure that when the VAT Bill came to this House last year – the one that we keep on referring to as Government Bill – it was rushed. It was brought here immediately after elections when we had already made promises to the people. I think all the parties that had participated in the election--- Every time we promise that we will reduce prices after the elections. I think it was rushed and not enough consideration was given to it, particularly when we were dealing with items that are now tabled through this Bill."
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