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    "id": 846808,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Looking at the Finance Bill, like one of the Members said, it was a desperate measure to raise funds through taxes. The rider should be that these taxes must not be raised in a way that will completely kill the mwanachi or the peasant. The biggest role of Parliament is to protect the weak local mwananchi. I convince and appeal to my fellow Members of Parliament that as we contribute on this, this is our core business. Being our core business, we should protect the worker, the proletariat and the mwananchi who is being taxed on kerosene and who is now facing increased VAT on petroleum products. That aside, let me concentrate on the key issues that I want to address. I want to address Clause 68, which talks about the Employment Act being amended. The provision proposes that employers will contribute up to a maximum of Kshs5,000 for the housing scheme and the employees will contribute 0.5 per cent from their salaries. The Committee went ahead and amended that 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent. The Committee should notice that its work is to protect the proletariats of this country who are the workers. They have increased the deduction from 0.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent. That would be detrimental to the workers of this country because they are already paying other taxes at all levels."
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