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    "id": 72933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/72933/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the amendments. We should separate the issue of health and the issue of bringing equality to the players in the tobacco industry. If we do not want to create a monopoly, we should create a fair playing ground for everybody. What is happening here is that we want to bring one company and make it enjoy a monopoly by imposing taxation that will kill another indigenous company that is trying to come up. I believe that what was brought in was a research to see how we can kill this one so that we survive. However, let us remember that these companies are all over the country and people will choose which cigarette to smoke. We cannot say that by increasing taxation we will stop smoking. Smoking is voluntary. Whether you stop it or not, people will learn to smoke. Otherwise, I support the amendments."
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