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    "id": 808378,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808378/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ikolomani, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benard Shinali",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benard Masaka Shinali",
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    "content": "I will start by urging those people in authorities and departments that collect taxes to make sure that they do not favour big taxpayers. We have goods which come to the country through Mombasa Port and other ports in Kenya. We wonder how so many tonnes of maize and sugar can come in the country, when we have such authorities that should check them and collect taxes. When you allow large quantities of commodities to be brought to the country and then they are mixed or repackaged and sold to Kenyans as if tax was collected from them, you are already stealing from the country. The taxes which would have been collected are lost already in that exercise. I come from the sugar belt area. Sugar farmers are taxed heavily. We have sugar levy that farmers pay. When this sugar is imported, it is brought in tax free which means that we are killing the same industries that we should support to grow."
}