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    "id": 934478,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1784,
        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": "on the old provinces that we had. One of the requirements in the tender is that you must have done similar projects for you to qualify. There is no Kenyan company that has that experience. So, what happens? We have foreign companies flooding into our country to do the jobs. They have no capacity or manpower. The same contractors who used to work on the contracts are employed and paid peanuts. Some of the companies are even going away without paying the contractors. That is unfair practice. I will tell the CAK to ask who drafted that contract or shaped it in such a way that it disadvantages Kenyans. Contracts should always be set. If you go to other countries, you will not be allowed to work there unless you team up with contractors from that country. In Kenya, we block Kenyans from working and invite foreigners to take up our jobs. Then Kenyans are employed and paid peanuts. I will tell the CAK to look at some of our manufacturers, farmers and exporters who have similar companies out there. They create invoices to show that they are selling their products to their sister companies at a very low price. They do not make profits here, but their sister companies outside the country do. What are we stealing from ourselves? They will not pay any taxes because they have made losses yet they are making profits in the countries where they are exporting their products. That is unfair competition and business practice which we will ask the CAK to investigate and make sure that it is corrected. There are some oil companies in this country. Like I said, in the old days, we would have importers and other people doing retailing. Oil companies are importing oil and running their own petrol stations. They even engage in unfair practices with agents and dealers that they have employed. Others are even telling our youth that they are teaching them how to run stations, so that they can empower them to get stations, but at the end of the day, the people are being misused and mistreated. They never attain their goals. I will ask the CAK to act on that. These amendments are very timely. They will help our country to create employment for our people. Our economy will only be stable if it is supported by stable Kenyans who are making money and are happy to pay their taxes. That will also go well with the KRA’s saying that goes: “ Kulipa ushuru ni kujitegemea”. We can only jitegemea if we are happy to pay our taxes. We can only pay our taxes if we are engaging in fair business practices. This is very timely. I hope it will support our economy in a way that our people will make money thus pay taxes. I support the Bill."
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