{"id":7310,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/7310/?format=json","text_counter":471,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Mbadi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":110,"legal_name":"John Mbadi Ng'ong'o","slug":"john-mbadi"},"content":"On taxes on kerosene and diesel, I want to mention that to cut down the burden of the high cost of living to low income Kenyans, the Government should reduce the taxes imposed on diesel and zero-rate kerosene. That is well articulated, and I would only urge that even as we do that, I think it is also important to increase expenditure on the poor by, may be, making cash transfers."}