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    "id": 1060383,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060383/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
    },
    "content": "COVID-19 has shown us that you do not need to physically meet to pass a resolution. Therefore, our amending the Companies Act to allow hybrid of virtual meetings to be part of statutory meetings will be a step in the right direction. It has been said here that if someone owes you money in a business transaction, the easy thing to do is to go to court and it will take you five years to get that payment. The amendment of the law to allow a maximum of 60 days injunction of small cases is a step in the right direction. Having done this as the national Government, does it solve the problems one will experience if they go to Nakuru, Molo or anywhere in this country and want to register a business? Unfortunately, the answer is no. County governments still have levies and bureaucracies. An example is the issue of fire. You find that for you to register a business, you are supposed to have a fire certificate. In that licence, there is a fee you pay for fire services. For example, in Molo Constituency in Nakuru County, we have had perennial fires. Last week, we lost a very old lady to a fire. We have lost very many businesses and houses to fire yet these registered businesses pay in their license’s money supposed to caution them against fires."
}