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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "It sounds good and we are saying that we are promoting sports, but how do you promote sports by allowing 100 people in a year to bring in equipment? Can that encourage sports in this country? We can only encourage sports in this country if we allow sporting equipment to be tax-free. That is the only way you promote it. You promote it from the kindergarten, primary, secondary, institutions of higher learning, universities or colleges. That is when we can say that we are promoting sports. People who travel overseas and sportsmen are already priviledged. They have incomes. Let us face the reality. This is a conduit of trying to help some people in the name of promoting sports. Who is a sportsman? I can be one. I can go overseas and come with sporting equipment. The Members can do this. When you come with the sports equipment, you can support your constituents and you will be entitled. So, what are we exactly doing as people who are supposed to, first of all, encourage sports? We are allowing a few businessmen to get goods through the backdoor to come and trade. I will move an amendment at the Committee Stage to have this section deleted, so that we will have a fair playing ground for all Kenyans. It should either be free for all or we all pay duty. That is what the Constitution says. The Constitution is very clear. This even goes against the Constitution. Secondly, we have removed the Income Tax Duty from the Office of the President and the Armed Forces. Of course, this was long-overdue. Most of those exemptions did not go to the direct beneficiaries. They used to sell the privilege and if you are entitled to import a car, you are given some little money, a letter is processed and somebody brings a car in your name. The Government lost a lot of revenue. The same thing will happen with the sports equipment. There is no difference. If we agree to remove duty and VAT from the Office of the President, the Armed Forces, Prisions and some institutions, then we should remove it from all the other institutions in this country. Another point that I want to emphasize here is with regard to the Finance Bill. I have looked at it and during the Committee Stage, I would like to bring some amendments. When the Government transfers money from the Treasury to the counties, who pays the 10 per cent levy? This is because it must be paid. That is what the Act says. When the counties pay the workers, they must also pay levy to the workers because the person who holds the account is the one who pays."
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