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    "id": 467165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, it is wrong to think that the VAT has not caused the sharp rise in the cost of living. The cost of living has been increasing but the sharp rise is because of the VAT. I want to remind my friend, hon. Nyokabi, that this is what we call market reaction. Our market is distorted. The moment you send a wrong signal, it triggers the entire economy and we are where we are. I remember telling the Leader of the Majority Party plus his Government that the Government has sugar coated this Bill. Any Government in the world must be concerned about the cost of living of its citizens. The Jubilee Government campaigned on the platform of reducing the cost of living and making the lives of the people of Kenya better. The policy of the Jubilee Government, as it is today, is to tax everything, anything until there is nothing left to tax. This is the policy which has brought us to where we are. It is wrong for the Jubilee Government today to say that we helped them pass this Bill. The Jubilee Government has been pushing this Bill like it is life and death. They even went to State House to discuss this Bill. The Jubilee Members have let down this country. They must own up, accept and take responsibility for this issue of the tyranny of numbers. The Jubilee Members must realise that this is a presidential system of Government. They are not part of the Executive. They should not be apologists of the Executive."
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