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    "id": 1156914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I have a keen interest in the Statement because many of our people who are scrap metal dealers, more so very young hustlers who collect scrap metal in our villages and small towns and sell them to local smelters, have suffered in the last few months. The ban in itself was illegal. It is amazing that the Chair has the audacity to say that the Ministry is working on guidelines. Guidelines on what when there is already an existing law that regulates the scrap metal business in the country? As a House, we must be bold and courageous enough to tell the President off when he acts against the law. The illegal ban by the President and the Cabinet Secretary is something that we should not accommodate. What guidelines do we need other than what is already established in law? Hon. Deputy Speaker, recently, there was a very unfortunate incident where a young man fell into a metal smelting boiler in Thika and lost his life. May the Lord rest his soul in peace. We are punishing very many innocent families in this county who rely on the scrap metal trade. At Dagoretti Centre, where Hon. Kiarie comes from, close to 12 per cent of the shops are scrap metal dealers. The same is the case at Waithaka Shopping Centre. These are not the people who vandalised electric poles and power stations in Embakasi. These are people who earn an honest living through collection of scrap metals. We must not punish our people because of failure by the Government. It is the Government’s work to protect its installations. The Government cannot hide behind the people."
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