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    "id": 949993,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "numbered for purposes of identification. As Sen. Malalah has said, to avoid the infamous or famous, Nairobi Business community, give the small traders identity badges so that they are easily identified by a number. That will be much better than categorizing the traders as ‘X’or’Y’. Madam Temporary Speaker, the idea of vending zones is long overdue. I therefore urge Sen. Kibiru to incorporate the ideas of the Urban Cities Act which provides that counties will have city managers. It is the city managers and not the County Executive Committee (CEC) members who are responsible for the zoning of markets and cities. County governments should be compelled that by the time they are zoning the proposed zones, there must be a spatial plan. There must be a place in Nairobi that is designated for doing these sorts of businesses such as Kawangware, Toi and many others. I wonder whether it is possible for the Bill to suggest a certain day when the small-scale traders can be given tax holiday because they are over taxed. Some of the incentives that we are giving the Chinese gives them an opportunity to come into the country through special economic zones and many other frameworks. We are giving the Chinese an opportunity to trade without paying taxes or licences at the first instance. Madam Temporary Speaker, an hon. Member complained here that we are overtaxing the small-scale traders or hawkers. Is there a role of the county assemblies that we have not incorporated in the Bill? Finance Bills are passed by the county assemblies. Is there a human right component, social economic rights or the Bill of Rights that can be incorporated in the Bill so that when the county assemblies pass that Finance Bill, they cannot overtax the people who do honest business? Alternatively, we should make sure that there is adequate public participation before some of these things are done. I would like Sen. Murkomen to hear that this category of street vendors otherwise known as hawkers are the real hustlers of this nation. The rest are not hustlers. These are the real hustlers because they make Kshs50, Kshs100 or Kshs200 in a day. The people who have sitting allowances, standing allowances and many other allowances are not hustlers. They have crossed the threshold of being hustlers."
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