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    "speaker_name": "Runyenjes, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Muchangi Karemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to contribute to the Statute Law Miscellaneous (Amendments) No.2, Bill. I support the idea to amend the Traffic Act to incorporate the use of technology in the management of minor traffic offences. Technology is being embraced all over the world. If you go to the developed world, people do not spend all their time on the road dealing with police officers. What happens in our country is that the police will want to arrest and detain you for hours so that in the process, they can extort some money or even exploit members of the public. However, when technology is incorporated, it will be used as a deterrent measure by the people in this Republic and they will prefer to pay instant fines, save the amount of time that we spend on our roads with traffic officers and be more productive as a country. I also support the idea of amending the Sexual Offences Act, 2006, which will provide that the convicts’ records shall be kept and maintained by the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary. This also will act as a deterrent measure because the repeat offenders will fear that their records will be maintained by the Judiciary. I think this will be a good treatment for them. In my Committee, we have been spending a lot of time discussing those issues of sexual offences in different sectors. I think this will be a good move. I have reservations about the idea of amending the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, 2013 to reclassify the supply of gas metres of tariff number 9028.10.00 and the supply of de-natured ethanol of tariff number 2207.20.00 as exempt and zero-rated, respectively. This is an area that we would like to be clarified because when ethanol is mentioned, some of us get very worried. We are coming from a community where young people are drowning in the abuse of alcohol and consumption of illicit brew. I can confirm to this House that many of our young people, even the very educated, are getting lost. We are very worried as a community because we wonder what will happen tomorrow when we lose young people to illicit brews. We seek clarification before we expedite on this Bill so that we can be assured that this amendment will not make things worse for young people. Recently, the courts legalised Muratina . This came as good news to some quotas. What people have been consuming and dying of is not Muratina, but illicit brews that are manufactured in the streets by the use of ethanol. This is what we are keen on. We do not want the supply or sale of ethanol made so easy that it is available to the people who want to kill our young people through the sale of illicit brews. With those comments, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."
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