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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you most sincerely, Hon. Deputy Speaker for recognising me and giving me the chance to contribute. In the difficult situation we are in, we already had the challenge of unemployed Kenyans well before COVID-19 came in. The number of unemployed Kenyans is increasing every day. For example, the ladies from Kibra and other slums who hang around residences of the general middle class seeking to wash clothes, now cannot enter into those homes to wash clothes. They go back to their homes without anything. My understanding of how to deal with the situation we are in, is to seek to get whatever we can from people who are in employment and earning to help those who are either out of employment or are vulnerable and have nothing at all. If we do not approach it that way, when conditions become insufferable for people, they will go to search for means wherever they believe they are there. So, you will have people from Kibra going to Karen, people from Mathare going to Muthaiga and people from Kawangware and Kangemi going to Lavington, Kileleshwa, Kilimani and Westlands. You know where they will head next once they are finished with those areas. That is why I am suggesting that for those who can give something, let us do so. I, therefore, fear that in as much as we are zero rating basic commodities – which is a good thing – we are taking away something like Income Tax from that lower bracket and we are lowering the Income Tax percentage from 30 to 25. If you lower for me Income Tax as a State officer, who is the only person whose job is secured in these difficult times, how will a vulnerable person survive? It may be suitable because we are employed in the Government like many others whose jobs are secured in this situation and can see the benefit in reducing Income Tax from 30 per cent to 25 per cent. However, this is not something that will be helpful because the Government The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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