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    "id": 209569,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/209569/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kibunguchy",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Health",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 294,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, I am constrained to oppose this amendment for various reasons. One, this Bill is a product of consensus. We have discussed it again and again. We had agreed that we reduce the number of sticks in packets from 20 to ten. Two, on those packets, there will be warning signs. If we sell cigarettes in sticks, whoever is buying the sticks will not have the benefit of the warning signs. In fact, later on, we will even have pictograms, like it is happening in other countries. If somebody does not have that packet, they will not be able to have the benefit of the warning signs and the pictograms. Finally, it is also a way of discouraging our youth from smoking. Otherwise, if we sell cigarettes in sticks, then our young people will find it very easy to access cigarettes. Mr. Chairman, Sir, for those reasons, I would like to oppose that amendment."
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