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    "id": 301564,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand very strongly to support the strengthening of the penalties against these vandals. The Kshs5 million fine that is proposed or ten years imprisonment or both will be a strong message being sent from this Parliament that we will not accept that vandalism to be part and parcel of Kenya. We will not accept vandalism to be business as usual in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we all know that these vandals operate within the community. I would urge that we come together and when we find these vandals, we report them to the police. More importantly, I also want to urge particularly the Kenya Power Company (KPC), which is the distributor, to create a special hotline for reporting these people. We, as a nation, must take a collective stand against them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it would also be good for KPLC to create incentives for communities that have come together to report people who are involved in vandalism. Incentives could be monetary. Incentives could also mean that they provide better services in those particular areas. They should recognize those communities who come together to work with them and help them arrest these vandals. It would be useful for the vandals who have been involved in these, particularly in rural areas. It is so bad that when rural electrification is starting within a constituency in far flung places, thieves descend on that area and mess up the whole area because of selfish interests. We want to send a very strong message from Parliament that this behaviour must stop. People must look for a better way to earn a living and we will not accept vandalism as a nothing. With those many words, I beg to second."
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