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    "id": 1406687,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1406687/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo",
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    "content": "Ministry has undertaken to ensure compliance with the law and accurate implementation of directives on illicit brews without favour or discrimination. I state as follows: The Kilifi County Coconut Act of 2015 conceives the Mnazi drink as “ toddy” . In the Act, toddy is an alcoholic beverage made from the sap of a coconut tree. Section 32(1) of the Act provides that the processing of toddy shall be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of the Kenya Bureau of Standards’ national coconut standards on toddy specifications. By dint of the provisions of the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act (ADCA) 2010 and the Kilifi County Liquor Control Act, the regulation of toddy is a concurrent function between the national Government and the Kilifi County Government. Section 2 of the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act 2010 (No. 4) provides that alcoholic drinks include alcohol, spirits, wine, beer, traditional alcoholic drinks and so on. The Kilifi County Liquor Control Act 2015 defines liquor to include the above. Mnazi falls within the definition of alcoholic drinks. More importantly, however, Mnazi is sold in commercial volumes in the coastal region that include Kilifi County. I underline “commercial volumes”. Therefore, it is a pillar of the economic mainstay in the region. Section 7 of the ADCA provides that no person shall manufacture or otherwise produce, sell, dispose of or deal with, import or cause to be imported for, export or cause to be exported, any alcoholic drink except in accordance with a licence issued under this Act. Section 8(1)(b) of the Kilifi County Liquor Control Act 2015 similarly provides that no person shall manufacture or otherwise produce, sell, distribute or dispose of or deal with any alcoholic drink in the county, except in accordance with the licence issued under this Act. Section 2 of the ADCA provides that sell includes batter or exchange without use of money, offer or expose of sell, batter or exchange without use of money, supply or offer to supply in circumstances in which the supplier derives or would derive a direct or an indirect pecuniary benefit, supply or offer to supply gratuitionally but with a view of gaining or maintaining custom or otherwise with the view of commercial gain. Section 2 of the Act defines sell in exact terms as the ADCA. In equal measures, the ADCA defines manufacture to mean the processing of alcoholic drinks. That includes packaging, labelling, distribution or importation of an alcoholic drink for sale in Kenya. The Kilifi County Liquor Control Act 2015 defines manufacture as the brewing, distilling, tapping or any processing or intermediate processing of alcoholic drink. That includes packaging and labelling."
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