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    "id": 1170111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, Ford-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Protect me from my neighbour here. He is bringing in something else. Thank you very much for the opportunity, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I agree with what the Committee has come up with. What we lack are regulations to regulate this industry. As you know, this is an industry that employs many of the youths. We have people who have degrees in engineering and what have you and there is no other start-up kit. We have that problem in this country. We have the problem of unemployment which is coming up every year and time. Students like the ones sitting are leaving. Maybe they will be leaving. I do not want to discourage them. But you will find that there is no work or opportunity other than scrapping off this trade which gives an opportunity to so many Kenyans to do little business here and there and the jua kali businesses in this country. The ministry should have come up with Regulations and severe penalties for those who are found dealing with scrap metals. I know there is a lot of work out there. The youths who do not have anything to do go destroying even electricity metres. You have just mentioned your grandmothers having left a jiko out there to boil githeri but it had been taken away by these unscrupulous boys and girls. I want us to look at it logically and say the Report we have received from the Committee on Delegated Legislation is good and I am supporting them. But, the Ministry should sit down and come up with Regulations and penalties for those who are destroying installations in this country so that they earn their living. You are not helping by scrapping it away completely. You are multiplying problems in this country. There is a lot of unemployment in this country. You cannot blame a guy who cannot even put anything in his mouth because he has nothing to do other than getting involved in the scrap metal business. Much as I support, I think the Ministry or whoever is concerned should come up with Regulations and penalties for those who are dealing in vandalising installations. I support the Report."
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