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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me from the very bottom of my heart to thank the hon. Members of the Ninth Parliament who have contributed to this Motion. You will have noticed that all hon. Members who have spoken have supported this Motion. It goes to underscore how important it is. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one philosopher, John Locke, said that \"all human beings are born equal and that they have got a right to the pursuit of happiness.\" This same philosophical statement that came from those ages of yonder was again taken by the Americans when they started their independence movement. Such statements are so important. Kenyans were born equal. The very bottom line of this Motion is that we must protect the poor Kenyans. I am so happy and grateful that hon. Members of this honourable Parliament have noticed that notion and supported this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to inform hon. Members that, though it is coming late, the draft Bill is ready. This Motion has been on the Floor of the House for a long time. I would wish to invite them, so that we can have a stakeholders forum, so that we can put the inputs. Whatever they have said has enriched what we already have in mind, that we need fairness in this country. We need to protect our people. We need to look after the economic welfare and efficiency of our people. We need to check undue concentration of economic power in the hands of a few people in this country against the majority of Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I talk now, not all of us in this House are equal although we were born equal. We know that there are a few of us here who own so much. Indeed, this is not good for any country. At one stage, we will find that we have been mortgaged by a few people. There is no tribe here. The only tribes here now are the poor and the rich. Among the rich, there are a few individuals who own everything. That is why we need a competition law to control monopolies, mergers and acquisitions. We know for certain that in some of these companies like somebody has said on the Floor of this House, that one family has shares in different companies and they control them. Even though, there are interlocking directorships in the air industry, there is space collision. A case in point, are the flights to Kisumu and other places. Soon enough, you will be having an airport at Isiolo and you will want to travel there. If you do not have this law in place, we are going nowhere. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, everybody has supported this Motion. There is no need to reply to what they have said. I want to thank the hon. Members of this House for debating this Motion maturely and with a lot of knowledge and passion. I also want to thank the Chair for allowing this Motion to come before the House. I beg to move. Thank you."
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