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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the need for control of prices and wages in a country need not be over-emphasized. In this country today, the normal wage for a common labourer is about Kshs100 a day. With that meagre earning, it is inconceivable how our countrymen are surviving. Therefore, we need price control. In the late 1990s and early 2000, there was control, not in written law, but there was a Government that controlled the prices of the essential commodities. Even during the hyperinflation when this country suffered aid freeze from international agencies, we still maintained the price of a packet of maize flour at Kshs30. So, the forces of the Government must come into play and this is what this Bill calls for. We cannot talk about the law of supply and demand in an environment of cartels and where there are no strong consumer organizations to voice the rights of the consumer. That is the reason this Bill has come into being."
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