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    "id": 1505133,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I am always sympathetic to my friend, the Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture. This particular provision creates an offence for protection, essentially, of intellectual property in research of the Institute. I do not know whether the Hon. Chairman agrees. If we agree, Hon. Chairman, there are other civil means and remedies to violations of intellectual property rights. I think we are putting too much weight on criminal penalties without considering that there are too many self-remedies around protection of intellectual property. For that reason only, unless we have empirical evidence confirming that there is need to move from the penalties regime proposed in the Bill, we do not need to amend this provision. There is no empirical information saying that if we move this way, then it will be better. These offences are generally misdemeanours. They are small offences. Proposals in the Bill are already good. We should exclude provisions that exaggerate penalties, which only open space for bribery and corrupt practices, for people to avoid being arrested, instead of addressing the issue."
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