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    "id": 1379559,
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    "speaker_name": "Nandi COUNTY, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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    "content": "When accidents occur, people often ask if Parliament can legislate on the same. We can hardly legislate on manners, like table manners and road manners. I call upon all of us to be good- mannered, especially on issues that deal with the road. I am pleased about the proposed amendment to the Sexual Offences Act. It has been proposed that there will be a register. That is a significant amendment. We shall pin people who are sexual offenders. An offender is likely to re-offend every other time. So, it will be important if we have a tag on them. This tag is not only going to be important to the law enforcers, but it will also be important to the community. If such kind of a person is re-admitted to the community, for caution's sake, the community will know the characteristics of such a person within their locality. I would wish that we had a tag for the sexual offenders, but it would be out of order because you cannot list an offender before you convict them for that crime. On the Universities Act, I agree with the proposed amendment. It will be important and significant. Allow me to add my voice to the Value Added Tax Amendment Act, 2013. This country is fighting illicit brews. At times, I listen to conversations on illicit brews, and I feel like people who comment have never come head-on with the effects of illicit brews. They have not seen the impact of illicit brew on anyone who is close to them, like a relative, a friend or a neighbour. I will support any kind of effort that is geared toward finishing the illicit brew. As I said, as a Member of Parliament, you are forced to be a jack of all trades. I have been forced to know the different classifications of ethanol. Also, I am aware that the ethanol produced in Muhoroni is insufficient, and the hardest business to do is importation. The factors contributing to the killer brews are hardships, bureaucracy, and taxes involved in ethanol importation. So, people resort to making their own ethanol, which ends up killing others. I have searched what denatured ethanol is, and seen it is for industrial use, not commercial use. The type of ethanol being mentioned and referred to here is not fit for human consumption. Nobody should use the lenses of consumable ethanol to judge this amendment because this is entirely for commercial and industrial use and not for consumption at all costs. I support the amendments in this Bill because they will enable us to become more efficient, compliant, and progressive in the changing times and ways of doing things in this country. I support this amendment. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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