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    "id": 1271719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1271719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, please protect me. I know there are Christian fundamentalists in the House. The point is, even as we take the war on illicit alcohol to the villages, it is very critical that we do not send even those people who could afford the regular beer a few months back, to now start looking for cheap illicit brew. This is all because they can no longer afford to buy products such as those sold by EABL. Madam Temporary Speaker, sales going down means a reduction of taxes that would otherwise be collected from this particular product. It has an effect on everyone and everything. If a company does not have spare resources, for instance, if their profit goes down, then even their involvement in social and community projects such as Tusker FC, the EABL FC that Senate Majority Leader was talking about reduces. It is not possible for you to spare money for some of these projects if you do not have sufficient sales and are not making the sort of profits that you were making. Indeed, I recall the good old days when East Africa Breweries Football Team would come to Kakamega County where I grew up to play MotCom from the then Ministry of Transport and Communication. Big as they were, we used to whip them. The fact that the team is not performing as good as it did in the 1990s, does not necessarily mean that EABL is now a bad company."
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