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    "id": 1029095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, protect me. The Chief Whip is becoming ‗miscellaneous‘ here. I do not know why the Chief Whip is excited. Maybe it is because of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). He has said we should go to the people instead of the Senate. I support what Sen. Were has just said that there are some companies that have monopolistic tendencies. For example, EABL cannot claim patent of a specific way of designing yet it is an internationally accepted standards that is being used by most companies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the problem we have in this country is not even EABL which is becoming rogue and monopolistic. The problem is that we have an agency called CAK which is just grossly incompetent, chronically ineffective and moribund. When we even raise issues of the milk and dairy sector in this country, it is the CAK that has allowed some companies in this country, especially in the milk and dairy sector that have run amok. When you see companies like EABL micromanaging and remote controlling CAK to allow them to override other companies that are making beer in this country, it is very sad. There are many other multinational companies. We have even other companies in the telecommunication sector in this country. The CAK has left Kenyans at the mercy of these monopolistic companies. You find EABL can dictate how the market of beer in this country can be run yet the CAK should be protecting Kenyans. Are we at their mercy? These are agencies that were created to put a leash into an insatiable appetite by companies that have monopoly. That is from the dairy, agriculture, beer, telecommunication sectors, among others. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a company in this country and I do not want to name it, that is monopolistic in telecommunication. They decide on how to sell data bundles and pricing in terms on engaging in buying airtime. I request the Committee that you will direct this matter to that CAK must be summoned here. It is a Government agency. They will never care about Kenyans. They will always care about the profits they want to make. They want make satanic profits in this country at the expense of the welfare of the citizens that we have. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope this matter will be addressed as soon as possible. This is so that we do not allow EABL to behave in a manner that they want to monopolize everybody and dictate on how the matter should look like. Even in the dairy sector, as farmers, we have always complained that there is one of the companies in this country that control 40 per cent of the milk market prices in this country, yet CAK has not done anything."
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