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    "id": 689338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The New Clause 18A is proposing to amend Section 7 of the Excise duty Act, 2015 sub-section 3 by deleting sub- sections (ii) and (iii) of that section which I want to read out. Sub-section 2 provides:- “The Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, grant remission of Excise Duty wholly or partially, in respect of beer or wine made from sorghum, millet or cassava or any other agricultural products excluding barley grown in Kenya.” Sub-section 3 provides:- “The Gazette notice issued under sub-section 2 shall specify the products and conditions to be met for the remissions to be granted.” So, what is the effect? The effect will be that currently, we have beer in Kenya which is being made from these three products. What the CS does, by virtue of this law, is to ensure that beer which made in Kenya, as the law provides, is given tax remission. If you looked at NTV the other day or even read the Daily Nation, you saw Hon. Oburu Odinga illustrating that he is now growing sorghum, because of this new clause, and selling it to beer manufacturers. So, we are going to kill cassava farming and “sorghum” farming at a commercial level. Most importantly, we are going to make our people revert to illicit beers, which this clause had fought and defeated. So, as proposed by the Committee Chair, we should oppose this amendment very strongly if we do not want our people to go back to the illicit beers which this country has been fighting."
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