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    "id": 1123325,
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    "speaker_name": "Kisii CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Janet Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "In addition, I want to say we have the Competition Act which repealed the Restrictive Trade Practices Act. I am very glad we now have an authority in place. So, they can set the practice of ensuring that competition in trade and businesses does not kill this country. Also, there will be balance between the merchants; the so called very rich and very poor. I hope that once these Commissioners set themselves in office, they will look at trade practice issues. I have in mind the airports, for example, after having been an executive director of the airports for some time, I know there is a lot that requires streamlining. This is particularly, bad practices where you find duty free shops allocated to one-person en-masse who comes under other small trading names, but in reality, it is one person running those businesses. This practice is terrible because so many merchants who would have wanted to participate in selling duty free commodities in this country are not given a chance and is a monopoly of the very rich. I also have in mind other trade practices which are very repulsive particularly, the question of Airtel and Safaricom as somebody has mentioned here where they have been in stiff competition and perhaps remedy can be found. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are other cases such as the Keroche Industries which are being muzzled and yet these are local businesses. We know that Kenya Breweries is spending much money fighting businesses that are homegrown and even run by women. So, I hope this authority will look at such things. I am very happy that there are two ladies and two men who have been nominated. This kind of balance of 50 per cent is what we need. With this I beg to support."
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