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    "id": 955068,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/955068/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Manje",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "The area that I want to talk to at length is where the Government wanted to introduce 10 per cent tax on wet blue hides and skins. We have some tanneries that turn hides and skins to a certain level. They are supposed to turn them into finished leather, so that they can be made into shoes. There are tanneries and other big businessmen who can turn them only to remove the first parts and get what we call wet blue which they can then export. When you put duty at 10 per cent, it will discourage exportation of skins and hides. Initially, hides used to be exported raw. But what happened? The prices were very high. Then we put high duty for export of raw hides and tanneries were not able to process all the hides in the country. That is why the price of hides and skins has been going down every day. Initially, you could sell a kilogramme of hide at a price of Kshs100. Today, you still sell at Kshs100. There was an agreement between the East African countries to put a 10 per cent duty on export. Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi have not done this. Tanzania tried last year, but today they have closed down about five tanneries. Is that the direction we want to go? If we make the amendment the way the Committee has proposed, to some extent, it will benefit this industry."
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