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"content": "You cannot watch for two hours without seeing a naked person! That naked person is not a Kenyan who is lacking clothes! It is somebody showing off his or her body for money! It does not even happen in America, which they say is the most free of the free world. It does not happen! What we see, even the dance channels shown on our television stations, they do not show us people dancing in Kondele, Kisumu! They do not show us people dancing at the Bomas of Kenya! They show us people dancing almost nude, and our kids get addicted to that thing. That is because, to them, anything to do with sex is nice to see and hear! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to stop that thing! We have said and, in fact, the media law is there, that we expect the media to self-regulate itself. So, it has no reason to offend with impunity! This law will make them stop that! It will make somebody know that when I am driving to work or driving my children to school, I do not need to hear things that I do not need to hear! You may not have that choice because they do not warn you that they are going to talk about sex in 30 seconds! They do not do that. That is what is, more or less, on air in most FM radio stations. They think that is pretty, but it is not! We need a law that will protect us against profanity and impunity! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same has been said about drug companies. The other day, I bought an anti-malarial medication and my brother, who bought it for me, upon opening said: \" Mheshimiwa, that one is fake\". When I took it back to the chemist in Kisumu, they gave me the right one. Who is to police these people? If you are dying of malaria and you take the wrong medication, you will die! Those people are making money! Who is to police the medical agencies? Every time you see them going to Umoja or Kayole in the name of inspecting the chemists, it is the big guys - the Medical Director. We need agencies to do that. We do not need a civil servant sitting in an office on a big chair to wake up once a year to go an inspect one chemist in Huruma. We do not need that! We need to have an Act which provides that if I die from bad medication and the postmortem shows that, my family should be compensated. That will stop the culture of impunity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Weights and Measures is a parastatal in this country, and one of its functions is to make sure that consumers buy goods in their correct weights and measures. This parastatal should make sure that when a person buys a kilogramme of meat from a butchery, the weight is correct. As the economy keeps worsening, the butchermen have reduced the weight of a kilogramme of meat to a quarter of a kilogramme. They have doctored the weighing machines. This is the work of Weights and Measures. If you go to a petrol station to buy fuel and you are told that a litre of fuel cost Kshs100, how do you verify that you have been sold a litre of fuel? This does not happen in this country. The biggest fraud on our roads is theft by people who vend gasoline because most of the pumps are doctored. The Weights and Measures Departments has few people to inspect these things. I do not think they even have an idea on how to do the inspection! They may have the April 30, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 775 knowledge, but they do not have any idea! They have no road map on how to protect us on the road. The matatu, bus and all the other fares will keep increasing because when the owners go to fuel their vehicles, they do not get their money's worth. We must do something to make sure that if I am ripped off by the Total Petrol Station along Mombasa Road, I can have somebody arrested. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will also protect us against the impunity in our courts because the Government has no idea what is happening there. There is a huge backlog of cases in our courts, and some of them are as old as 20 years. If you go the High Court Registry, you are told that the files are not there. When you are suing a company for impunity, you go to the Attorney-General's office and you are told that the files are not there. Who do you turn to? I need to have a law that can enable me to arrest the Attorney-General. I need to inform him that I am being offended and I need to be compensated. This is happening across this country. I need to have an Act that provides that if you rob me of my money at a fuel pump along Mombasa Road, I can take you to court, and if the court is dilly-dallying, I can still have a case against the prosecuting authority. That is what this Bill, which we seek establish, will do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to end by again thanking the hon. Members. It is our responsibility, as has been generally agreed, that we need to protect our consumers. I hope that when the Bill comes to the House, which will be soon, we shall all support it, so that we can begin to protect our consumers."
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