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    "id": 595126,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to explain where my Chairman is coming from. I am speaking as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. It should go on record that we sat as a Committee till very late to go through these amendments. There was a reason, and there is a lot of bitterness in the whole Committee regarding all the amendments we suggested. These amendments were brought to the House and were adopted. But when they went for the Presidential assent, the President explained that he needs to get an input from the National Treasury. When the National Treasury gave him the input it meant that they rubbished all our suggestions. First of all, Kenyans need to know that some of the amendments we are against are, for example, a simple bottle of soda going up by 43 per cent. When our learned friends on the other side defend these amendments, they should tell Kenyans that when a bottle of soda goes up by 43 per cent, we were not part of it. The cost of a small vehicle is going to be unbearable. We are no longer talking about having a middle income generation in this country. People are being overtaxed. I can assure one thing, that we stand---"
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