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    "id": 620431,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620431/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "The Report says that the Commissioner-General admitted that KRA did not have the capacity to verify all containers of commodities imported, but does random verification and scanning of cargo before release. That is the Commissioner-General of KRA who was talking. How then could a Member who sat in the Committee derive that there is capability of non-payment of VAT, if the Commissioner-General said there was no verification? They do it randomly and, in that case, they never did it. I lead you to the submission of the Board of Management of Mumias Sugar Company. They go further to say that the Board of Management was aware that the company exported sugar to several European and African countries between 2006 and 2012, and that the sugar may not have left the country and revenue and VAT payable could have been lost. Based on that speculation even by the Board of Management itself, how then does a Member of a Committee come here with finality that something was lost? We cannot use the Floor of this House for unnecessary politics. Hon. Washiali cannot purport to be the only MP from the sugar growing area. This investigation was in all sugar growing areas and not Mumias only."
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