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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lurambi, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Khamala",
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        "legal_name": "Titus Khamala Mukhwana",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I laud the Committee for the good work and the report. I have been a victim in my constituency in Lurambi whereby we build roads and especially bridges. On those bridges, we put guardrails and those guard rails do not last. We have to support work. People have to work. We have to be a working nation. Definitely people that deal with scrap metal are doing a good job and they are contributing to our economy in our country and we have to support them. However, you cannot do business without regulations. Regulations just do not come with bottlenecks or to stifle freedom of doing business but there must be discipline in every business. Sometimes when you go to markets, you find people selling plumbing materials and some of them are old. You wonder if they come from somebody’s house or how they find their way into the market. Work has been done by this Committee to make sure that we have this business in place. There must be a difference between people that are just dealing with genuine scrap metal and those who are vandalising equipment and important installations to the detriment of Kenyans. Because of the Committee Report and what we are discussing here today, I throw in my weight and support that indeed scrap metal dealers have to do their work. They have to do their business but there must be a way they do it so that it is genuine and not a business where they vandalise materials from elsewhere to sell. You can imagine where you build a bridge and this bridge is going to support the community but when you wake up in the morning and visit the same bridge, all the guardrails are gone. This is because one person thinks that they should make a business out of that at the expense of the entire community. I support and as I take my seat, I thank the people of Lurambi for bringing me into this House for five years. I pray for every Member in this House that they get an opportunity to come back. I leave that to God and the electorate. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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