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    "id": 1477930,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1477930/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "I have been asking myself this. Some of us use the internet. With Kshs900, you buy 10 GB for seven days from Safaricom. Why is it that after seven days, when I still have 500 MB, it expires and disappears? Is it not unfair for Safaricom to do this to me because that is my money? I bought 10 GB for Kshs1,000. I am not using the internet too much. When you look at the balance, I still have maybe 5,000 MB, which is around 5 GB. At a particular time, why would it expire and it is my money that I bought my bundles with? Those are some of the challenges. The internet now is becoming an elusive currency for many young people. When you go to universities, many people work online including even your personal assistant King Larry. He could be working online and he needs that internet. So, insist that CAK should protect consumers. There are consumer protection mechanisms that we must ensure. Even what we consume including what is sold in supermarkets, we need to be given the report. There are imported things that are sold including juices and diapers used by children. Are they eco-friendly? In the withdrawn Finance Bill, 2024, we wanted to levy eco-tax on phones, electronic appliances, and even diapers. These diapers that our children use do not decompose. I do not know what the Government will do to introduce eco-tax, such that my phone and those who have iPhone 8 and iPhone 16 can know where to dump them. That was the essence of eco-tax. We need the CAK to do what we call consumer protection. The second issue is consumer information. Do you remember there was a scandal of mercury sugar? Those individuals were eventually let scot-free. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decided to withdraw the cases--- We are aware of sugar barons in this country. We saw the other day the Government Printer saying that there are titles that were issued illegally. My advice as one of the senior lawyers in this country is, if you want your land to be safe, charge with a loan. If you do not charge it with a loan, it will disappear through the disease of “grabiosis ”."
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