{"id":1275596,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1275596/?format=json","text_counter":120,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheruiyot","speaker_title":"The Senate Majority Leader","speaker":{"id":13165,"legal_name":"Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot","slug":"aaron-cheruiyot"},"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am properly guided. I therefore, abandon that conversation. I will proceed to comment on the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey, which I believe we are at liberty to debate. The number of companies that are doing this kind of business are predominantly many. We know for a fact that 99.9 per cent of these companies are not locally owned. They are owned by foreigners. Therefore, this is neocolonialism but a very difficult one because young people are breaking their backs working in either extreme cold or a lot of sunshine. Eventually, all the money they have made, for example, if you made Kshs2,000 a day, Kshs1,800 is taken and to be offset out of the country. This is not a small matter. I hope the Cabinet Secretary responsible will come. These businesses are of great national interest such that Parliament should have legislation to keep them within the confines of the country; that if you want to do this kind of business, you must have"}