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    "id": 808342,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": "alternative solution to earn their living. Therefore, I stand with those boys who are there at the gate so that their issues can be properly addressed. The tax incentive on home ownership is good. Owning a house in Kenya is a dream to everybody, including us who sit here in Parliament. It is not very easy to own a house. Therefore, this attempt to increase incentives of owning a house in Kenya is much welcome, especially the exemption of stamp duty for first home owners. I support it wholesale. The Value Added Tax Act, 2013 which intends to move some items from zero rating to tax exempt is welcome, especially building materials. Most of us here have constructed a house. It is not very easy, it is very expensive to build a house – materials are very expensive; they are not affordable. Any attempt by the Government to reduce the cost of a house, especially to me who is an architect, is much welcome. I support this idea of exempting some of the building materials for those constructing more than 5,000 houses to support the Big Four Agenda. You know we have now moved on from resist styles. We were resisting in the streets. We have now moved on from that. We have also moved on from handshakes. In fact, these handshakes can be contagious. You contaminate yourself with incurable diseases if you are not careful. We are now talking about lifestyles. I do not know what is next. After lifestyle audits, are we going to deathstyle audits? Kenya is moving to the graves. We have heard about mega scandals which are not supposed to be there because Kenya has always talked about fighting corruption. The Jubilee administration since it took power has always spoken about fighting corruption. In the midst of all this fighting corruption, we hear about theft at the National Youth Service (NYS); we hear about theft of maize; we hear about theft at the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC). We are now hearing about counterfeit sugar contaminated with mercury. Where are we heading? After the lifestyle audits, what else are we going to audit? These laws must go beyond just collecting money. They should be laws for guarding that money from ending up in people’s pockets. I will support any policy by the Government that will go into guarding money from being stolen. Before I conclude, I want to support my Party Leader, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka. We were rebranding ourselves and opening a new office yesterday. That office almost looks like State House. I was given an office there and I feel very comfortable as the treasurer of the party. My Party Leader proposed that we put legislation in place to govern that lifestyle audit so that it is a process that is founded in law. I saw His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta saying that he should be the first to be audited followed by his deputy. I wonder which State officer will go and ask the President questions about where he got what he has. Who will go to the Deputy President and ask him where he got what he has? So, we need to put legislation in place so that it is not just rhetoric talk, it should be founded in law. An agency that is not scared by the President and the Deputy President can go and question them. If I question you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, where you got that tie you are wearing, you will not give me a chance to speak in this Parliament. Therefore, it must be real so that as we fight corruption, it is real. I support. Thank you."
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