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    "id": 488707,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/488707/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1909,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
        "slug": "samuel-kamunye-gichigi"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have in the past before this House supported re-introduction of capital gains in this country. Even in future proposed amendments, I will be doing it. If that is the import of the proposed amendment, the Government will forcefully, or compulsorily, acquire my land, my one acre that is already encroached on by a road or an electricity line. They come and value the land at Kshs500,000 and give me that Kshs500,000 to go and acquire another parcel of land where I can find it; the Government is now telling me that they will tax the Kshs500,000. Is this right? I will be forced to go to use my own money to get a similar land parcel. That is one of the worst provisions that can be introduced in House. If the Government is telling me to move to that other land--- It can actually buy me another parcel land, shift me there and I will not have a problem. But it should not take my land, give me the purported value of that land, and when I go to replace it, I have to go back to my pocket. That is a law that is inhuman and unconstitutional because you are grabbing my asset without compensating me fully. I oppose that amendment completely."
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