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    "id": 811143,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " The question is whether it is still relevant in the current Constitution. To address these two issues we will address the issue of the Committee of Ways and Means. We have Hon. Amos Kimunya here, who really interacted a lot with the Committee of Ways and Means in the 10th Parliament and before. Hon. Duale and myself also from the back bench. The Committee of Ways and Means was just a committee to allow the then minister to tax Kenyans awaiting the Finance Bill. The rationale behind this was very simple, that if you specifically mentioned a date and Kenyans knew when these taxes would apply, say, on cigarettes, everybody would hoard cigarettes up to that time. So, in the wisdom of the people of Kenya, they decided to allow the minister to charge these taxes. Now the question is: Is this Committee of Ways and Means still valid today in light of those changes that took place in that Act and reading it together with the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution? There is another issue which I want to raise for your guidance under Standing Order 49 regarding Motions that may not be moved. It says that: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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