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    "id": 240715,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Ochieng Odoyo",
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    "content": "Much obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that the multinationals control the production process in the Kenyan industrial sector. Today, the consumer is being exploited both at the pricing level and labels. There are inaccurate phrases heaped on the products. For example, \"they cure all and they answer all\", which is providing false and malicious information that is misleading the youth and other consumers. An area in point that may have been partially addressed by the July 26, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2349 Government was the issue of cigarettes. Cigarettes in Kenya are manufactured by multinational companies. We have a Kenyan company controlling just 10 per cent of the market. The soft drinks market is 95 per cent controlled by multinationals. What we may also call the packed food stuffs are controlled by a multinational. Many of the services that we use from morning to sunset are provided by these multinationals. Multinationals are controlling the lives of Kenyans. Time is, indeed, ripe for us to enact a law that will assist and enable Kenyans to seek redress. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other area where we continue to be exploited unabated is that of employment. Indeed, there is a lot of exploitation of workers. Multinationals such as the EPZ, for example, want even to know what their workers eat, when they eat, how they eat and how much they eat. Indeed, the fire that razed some offices at Libra House on Mombasa Road and caused the death of many workers is a case in point where multinationals lock their workers inside the factories to work extra hours, so that they make profits. The Government has no machinery to check on the workers. Time is ripe for this House to enact a Consumer Protection Bill that, in addition, should go beyond just looking at the product, but also look at the full range of the marketing access that is required. These areas, not only include pricing, but also promotion, advertising and distribution."
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