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    "id": 955034,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/955034/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "I start by emphasising that a Finance Bill is purely meant to give ways and means by which the Government is supposed to raise its revenue, which it budgets for and which is used for the wellbeing of the citizens. This is a good Bill save for the reservations we have made which are always mischievous and curious. We have statutes that have nothing to do with revenue-raising being brought into the Bill with a view to amending those particular laws and whose repercussions sometimes are adverse to the people. We have just raised one which we are going to get a ruling from the Speaker. There are other proposed amendments in here, which in my view, do not fall under the ambit of a Finance Bill. When the time comes, we will scrutinise those amendments and possibly call upon the House to reject them at this stage and make a direction that they be brought with proper amendment Bills in their respective statutes."
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