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    "id": 841525,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/841525/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, telephone services in the country are no longer a luxury. Everybody everywhere is communicating. We are now making it difficult for people even to communicate, because a huge tax has been imposed on telephone services. When you talk to those responsible, they say they are widening the tax net and the tax base. We are killing enterprise. We are destroying production; we are in East African Community. Our tax regime is simply going to mean that investors, who are coming to Kenya, look at our tax regime, compare it with Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. We are in the same jurisdiction and they will simply shift to where it is easier and better to do business. That is why today direct foreign investment is going to Rwanda and Tanzania more than it is coming to Kenya, yet Kenya has always been the country of choice because we have an international hub for air transport, very good roads where they are available good telephone network and a developed financial system. An investor does not come to Kenya because they like, but because the environment and climate is good for them to put their money and make money, hence creating jobs. Where it becomes impossible, then we have no opportunity to create employment for our youths, to grow the economy and to do things that make this country move to the next level of development. It is painful to imagine that even as we are taxing ourselves out of production, we are losing huge sums of money to corruption. If you look at the eight per cent that has been imposed on fuel, according to the national Treasury, it is going to generate just about Kshs35 billion. However, it is going to vibrate through the entire system; it is a shock to the system. Just Kshs35 billion! Did we have to do that? You will immediately save Kshs5 billion by observing the Constitution and merging provincial administration with the devolved units."
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