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    "id": 988251,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/988251/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Purity Ngirici",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13246,
        "legal_name": "Purity Wangui Ngirici",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Bill, which I support. I wish to reiterate the fact that some of the proposals by the Treasury are quite ridiculous. As representatives of the people, we need to cushion our people from some of the proposals like increment of VAT on fertilisers, animal feeds and all those things that are consumed daily by the wananchi . I am glad that our Committee was able to settle and cushion Kenyans by reducing the rate of VAT on most of the goods that are consumed daily from the proposed 16 per cent to 14 per cent. I also commend the Committee for reducing tax on spare parts of small aircraft and in trying to cushion the air transport industry, which is right now grounded. Those proposals would not have meant anything or increased any money to the country. As representatives of the people, we should look at proposals that will give effect to what the Government has presented to the country."
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