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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we cannot allow everybody to wake up in the morning with a sack to go round collecting metals. We must have a way of licensing people who are allowed to go round collecting these metals and selling them. We must also have licensed dealers who have actually subscribed to certain code of conduct. With those few remarks, I support and urge the House to support this Bill, so that as soon as possible, we have a regulated industry. This will help the economy to grow rather than making it to stagnate. We put a lot of resources into the road signs. Through the CDF, we fund schools to write sign posts to show where they are, but these sign posts disappear within a week. Again, visitors get into trouble because they do not find any signs along the highways. This is not because Kenyans have not been erecting sign posts, but it is because people have been stealing them. At our road blocks, you find lorries carrying scrap metal, which are clearly marked with school names and churches and they are allowed to move on. We need to find a way of implementing the laws that we pass. We can have a law on paper, but on the ground, no one is implementing it. We need to 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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