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    "id": 845052,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/845052/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we are in problems now. We have a committee that touches things that they know very little about. I am sorry. Something called limitation of actions has nothing to do with minors. It has everything to do with the period that the action is alive. Minors have somebody called guardian ad litem (GAL). Minors have somebody called a ward. I do not think this committee had legal advice. What they are trying to do here, and they are not telling you Members, is that KRA will chase you not only for the six years but for 20 years. Right now the limitation of action is six years. What they are trying to do which they are not telling, and they are going into things called minors, KRA will chase you for 20 years and they have not collected money from you. What happens is, the highest limitation of actions that we have, even in cases where you have not commenced an action, is 12 years. So when they come up with 20 years, you do not know it is from which jurisdiction, whether Commonwealth or American. It is ridiculous. The committee should know what a Finance Bill is and what legislation should come on its own. Everybody is complaining. They come to limitation of action and put in something, like the Statute Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. In fact, if this provision was in the Statute Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, I would have let it pass. What is it doing in a Finance Bill if it is not for the fact that some clever people at Treasury are trying to do things which are going to hurt Kenyans? This thing must be reined in on."
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