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    "id": 975407,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, it is the Leader of Majority who is interrupting me; telling me that I am cheating myself. I am not cheating myself. It is the country that could be cheating itself that we are growing while in reality, we may not be growing. The Committee is concerned by this apparent non-growth of revenues. Further, the revenue growth is based on increased collection from Income Tax as well as VAT despite projections under these tax heads having been revised downwards in the BPS. Those are the contradictions that we are talking about. That we are revising our revenues upwards — basing them on income tax and VAT projections but, in reality, they have revised the targets for this particular tax revenue lines downwards in the BPS. Therefore, you must ask yourself where the revenue will come from with all the challenges that are there. Let me not also re-emphasise on the question of our revenues so that we can allow many Members to contribute. The other policy recommendation, Hon. Speaker, that we have touched on…You appreciate that last year, in the 2018/2019 or 2019/2020 Financial Year, we saw the Chief Justice (CJ) lament in the media on issues to do with budget cuts. Let me take this opportunity to assure the country that, as a House and as a Parliament, we are intent on protecting the Judiciary to ensure that it continues to be an independent arm of Government, just like the National Assembly and Parliament should and ought to be."
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