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    "id": 106657,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kizito",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 71,
        "legal_name": "Justus Kizito Mugali",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is because the laws of this country do not allow the common man to enjoy their bit. There are many people who would like to enjoy their drink. So, it is only those who have money who can enjoy taking drinks in very important places, where entry is controlled. What about those people who do not have money? Where do they go? If you have not put in place measures to control and regulate brewing and consumption of alcohol, then those Kenyans who do not have means will go and use their brains to make alcohol. As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. Therefore, this Bill will help us a great deal. It is also going to help the common persons to use whatever knowledge they have to come forward and also earn something. What we take in pubs is much lower in terms of alcohol content than what we get in the villages. So, it will be very important for us to allow production and consumption of chang’aa, and regulate the same. I want to support my senior colleague, Mr. Wetangula, who said that we should borrow a leaf from our neighbouring countries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform this House that even in Russia, whiskies are produced by families. If it is my family that distilled some whisky, we would package it and brand it “Kizito Whisky”. However, those whiskies are subjected to standards, so that they can meet internationally accepted standards. So, we need to look into this aspect. One of the reasons why I support this Bill is that the regular police, and the Administration Police, have taken advantage of there not being in place a law to regulate drinking of chang’aa and other local brews. They target homes where chang’aa is sold. They earn on a monthly basis. They do not stop people from brewing, but they continue earning from them through extortion. This leaves many families suffering. It has promoted a lot of corruption in the villages. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we would like to turn these illicit brews into income-generating activities for our people. If we allow this to be done in a better way, the drinks that are sold in the villages can be packaged and subjected to testing by the Kenya Bureau of Standards and be sold in pubs. These drinks are not any different from drinks like Furaha,"
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