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    "id": 434402,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the other thing we are saying is that when the Committee called the stakeholders, travel agents talked to the Committee, and it felt that we need to consider that air ticketing is done through a common system, and somebody using a billing system in Uganda, Tanzania or South Africa is able to access it. So, it is possible for me to book my ticket in Uganda through an agent and it is emailed to me. That means we are actually killing our own travel agency business because those in Uganda or Tanzania are not charged VAT. We cannot kill our sector and export jobs to our neighbouring countries. We thought we should protect our sectors and also protect other pharmaceutical companies. I propose that the House supports these issues because we have considered them carefully. I know hon. Ng’ongo has one or two items which are--- Generally, we have agreed on these issues. In Part (c), we are saying we insert the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (b). That is (c) in Part I Section (a), by deleting tariff number---"
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