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    "id": 1170116,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1170116/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "suffices and it serves Kenyans on this matter. There needs to be protection of well-meaning Kenyans who make true living through scrap metal trade. We must have a system of making sure those who deal with metal and not scrap metal are properly dealt with as per the law. This can be done through enacting serious penalties. The only penalties for somebody caught with illegal metal are heavy bribes to the police. Therefore, we really need a law. The next House must pass the law for the benefit of the country. There are many people who have lost business. Recently they demonstrated in the city and at the Ministry of Trade and Industrialisation. That means there has not been proper public participation, which needs to happen. Traders should organise themselves into groups, SACCOs or cooperatives so that they are able to regulate themselves the way th e boda boda sector does. When a criminal tries to get into the boda boda sector, members of the sector are able to stop them from committing any crime. I propose that scrap metal dealers form cooperatives. I believe if they do that, they will be able to regulate themselves even before the Government regulates them. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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