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    "id": 845121,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/845121/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "expecting to see an exclusion of mobile money transfers because these mobile money transfers are carried in paragraph 5 where excise duty is being imposed to a tune of 10 per cent on mobile money transfers on any platform including Mpesa, Airtel Money and so on, in essence negating the whole concept of Robin Hood. This is because when you impose excise duty on mobile money transfer, you are actually loading the duty on the people who we say are at the bottom of the pyramid in Kenya. In essence, this remedy does not exclude mobile money transfer. Paragraph 6 talks about money transfer between banks. However, on mobile money transfer, by passing his amendment, we will still be imposing excise duty to mobile money transfer that is used by the lowest people in society, as such negating that Robin Hood concept. So, if his amendment falls, it puts us in a predicament where, if we revert to Clause 31 as is proposed in the Bill, we might have to, on that condition, also fall Clause 31 itself. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman."
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