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    "id": 664303,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank my able Chairman, Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, for coming up with a legislation that will fight for his people. That is the purpose of this House and the work that all of us should be doing. I am not from a sugar growing area and so, I will be as brief as possible because I know there are those who have vested interests in this debate. We used to grow sugar-cane in Kathiani a while back but ours used to be for making local brews. Unfortunately, that was banned and we accepted and moved on. The responsibility of any Government is the welfare of its people, particularly in the area of eradicating poverty. This can be done through economic empowerment to the people. Every nation has to be careful on the regime of taxation that it imposes on its people. Taxes must not be punitive, but beneficial to the people. Our tax regime in this country, particularly Value Added Tax (VAT) on some of the products, amounts to double taxation. The farmer is taxed and later on, on the transportation of the same goods, he is also taxed. We should ensure that taxation is not extreme."
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