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    "id": 822888,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822888/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am not a big fan of social media but today I saw quite a number of things. One touched on the characteristics of rich people and the characteristics of poor people. One of the things that were mentioned is that poor people watch TV while rich people read. The whole idea was to encourage people not to be poor but to be rich. When you look at all that in relation to what is in front of the House now on the issue of VAT on textbooks, if we want to encourage a culture of reading – which is going down in this country – the cost of textbooks must come down. Besides that, the biggest consumer of what we call textbooks in this country is the public, and much more so the Government. Charging VAT on textbooks is basically charging the same Government. I support the Petition."
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