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    "id": 106652,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have seen what alcohol has done to our people. We had the Machakos and Mai Mahiu cases. You recall the painful statement of somebody saying: “ Hata mkizima taa, nitaendelea kunywa tu ”, when, in fact, he had been rendered blind because of alcohol consumption. Do we want the country to go that route? I want to urge Parliament, particularly the Committee that oversights the enforcement of a Bill such as this, to help mount civic education to the whole country, to make sure that the Provincial Administration ensures enforcement of non-consumption of alcohol in private premises and people’s homes. Consumption must go to public places. It must be regulated in terms of timing. People used to go to their farms and work. You till the farm up to 2.00 p.m. You go to the bar. If it is your muratina or machwara or machozi ya simba or owino rachar, whatever you call it, you have just about three hours to consume and go back home and rest in order to be productive the next day. Until, and unless we control the excessive consumption of alcohol in this country, our Vision 2030 is at risk, because we will have no people to work. We will have no people committed to the change that we are all aspiring for in this country. With those few remarks, I once again salute hon. Mututho and hope that he will see this to the end of the Bill at the Third Reading, to include some of the things we have told him. I want to finally urge Madam Esther Murugi that if there are many difficulties in Central Kenya, Western Kenya is available. Thank you."
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