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    "id": 896569,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/896569/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Olago Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Another issue is about the housing levy. Many Members of this House will recall that when the VAT rules came the first time and the House rejected them under Article 115 of the Constitution, the President referred the Bill back to the House. Members, either on their own volition or because they were coerced by their party leaders decided to accept the referral by the President. In that referral, there is the 1.5 per cent Housing Levy. That is the legal basis. So, I get dismayed when Members of this House turn to the public out there and deny having passed that law. It is this House that passed that law through the President. So, now that it has been passed, we must address it as Members of this House. Does the Housing Levy help the ordinary Kenyan? It is not a tax. It is a levy. If it is a levy, in whose benefit is this levy going to serve Kenyans? Time has come for the House to readdress itself to the 1.5 per cent Housing Levy, so that those who want to invest in housing do so at their own volition and pace as they wish and not by compulsion. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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