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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. I am actually shocked by the last speaker, my good friend, hon. Nyokabi, with whom I worked very closely in the human rights sector, suggesting that we can tax inheritance. I worked especially in the children’s sector and we have many children whose parents have died of HIV/AIDs especially in my constituency. We have almost 5,000 child-headed households in some of those constituencies. If you are going to tax this, you are going to tax the very little money left. But I understand the Member comes from a richer constituency and I come from a poorer one, but we need to understand where people are coming from. Having said that, this Government must act urgently because a hungry man is an angry man. Kenyans do not understand the language of Jubilee or the language of CORD when they are hungry. Kenyans are saying that they are both hungry and angry. We must respond to the call of Kenyans and stop the semantics of the Leader of the Majority Party telling us the stages of a Bill like we do not understand where they come from. You should do the good thing and whether you do them as CORD or Jubilee, the situation is that Kenyans are suffering. Even if it is not the VAT Act, because we need to wait for six months, we must do something to ameliorate the suffering of Kenyans. In my constituency, milk costs Kshs80. Kenyans cannot survive on that. The first time I saw people who are corded and ODM shouting at the former Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga, was during the time the prices of unga was up. So, let us stop living in this ivory tower when Kenyans are suffering. Let us deal with this issue. We are already enslaving Kenyans with the futures market. That is why we have even paid money for the oil in Turkana. Next year and the years coming are going to be worse. This Government needs to be honest. Let us not enslave Kenyans with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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