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    "id": 1170105,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1170105/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 46,
        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
        "slug": "charles-kilonzo"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I support this Report by the Committee on Delegated Legislation, I want to share my experience. The scrap metal dealers industry is a very crucial sector in this country. My personal experience within my constituency and even within the county is that this is one of the hated sector. Why? It ceased being scrap metal trade. It moved to metal trade. Unscrupulous people will go and remove windows from schools, gates from churches and fences. Even in my farm, they uprooted greenhouses at night. The bitterness in the residents of Yatta and Machakos County was unbearable. They would go and remove road furniture, new road signs and road railings. It ceased being a scrap metal trade. For Government to have suspended the trade to put the house in order is something that is understandable. As we revisit this trade, it is very important to regulate how it is done. The rules must be very specific. The penalties must be so high, to make sure the people who are buying what is supposed to be scrap metal know what it is. It is important to have this trade on scrap metal. It is recycling metal. It is good for the environment. It is the same way we are saying we recycle plastic and waste. It is good. But, it should not be done at the expense of the economy of this country and the public sector. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, do you know they were stealing spoons and sufurias ? They were going to a trading centre in one of my centres called Sofia and another one in Matuu and would buy sufurias, spoons, folks, knives and anything metal. It is important that we regulate the trade. It should be purely scrap. What we have today is not scrap, it is metal trade. As I support this Committee and as new rules come, I encourage the next Parliament to ensure they promote the trade of scrap metal and not metal only. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the resolutions and recommendations of the Committee."
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