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    "id": 635510,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/635510/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": ". There is no way the British Government can say that Miraa is a drug and keep a section of this country poor because they cannot trade with them. We are being too lenient to the British. The British are a colonial force. We do not properly investigate anything that touches on them. We have to ask ourselves. If you go to Laikipia, why do we have foreigners on our land owning huge chunks and tracts of land and keeping a lion and calling themselves conservationists? This House has a duty. If we cannot trade with you, why are you living here? If we cannot merely trade with you, why are you living on our land? The former Minister for Finance, Hon. David Mwiraria said he wanted to broaden the tax base and reduce taxation to Kenyans. He was a good tax collector. These other governments have refused to go that path. If you go to Karen, the so-called Karen cowboys live in Nairobi and Members of Parliament, who Kenyans think have privileges, cannot go to where Karen cowboys go in Karen. Hon. Mwiraria told me that when he sent his officers to go and try to tax those places, a white guy with a gun walked into his office in Treasury and put the gun on the table and told him: “Do not dare!” Are we living in slavery or are we Kenyans? Are we a sovereign state? We must, as a country, be as angry as leaders elected by people can get."
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