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    "id": 54624,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the cost build up, the taxes do contribute to the high petroleum prices. But the contribution at the maximum is about 26 per cent, including Road Maintenance Levy, Excise Duty and the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL). We have engaged in long discussion with the Treasury regarding what tax interventions we can make. We cannot touch the Roads Maintenance Levy, because contracts have been entered into and you remember the states of our roads. The only intervention that the Treasury could make was on the Excise Duty. When you look at the law, the maximum the Minister can give without coming to Parliament is 30 per cent, which he has given. Parliament is a very powerful institution. It can convert a man into a woman. It is for this Parliament through the budgets, to look at the law again to see if what the Minister did was insufficient; whether more can be done, but with its authority."
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