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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me, first of all, thank my colleagues who have contributed to this Bill. The issues here are numerous. I wish hon. Shakeel could let hon. Balala listen. Let me begin by thanking you and inviting Members of Parliament to know that this cannot be an individual’s Bill. All I have tried to do is to create debate. I think it is an opportunity for all of us to bring in all other areas by way of amendment as we go to the Third Reading so that we can make it much more comprehensive. I agree with you in many things you have said but I do not think you covered everything. I think we all need to sit together as interested people. I think it is very important. There are issues which have been raised which are here but subtle like hon. Kathuri referred to the way insurance companies treat people because they make prints which you cannot even read. Banks are also doing this and many more people. Clause 7 of the Bill says that any ambiguity that allows for more than one reasonable interpretation of a consumer agreement provided by the supplier to the consumer or any information that must be disclosed under this Act shall be interpreted to benefit the consumer. However, we will go further because I realized what he was saying and say that even prints must be legible. You must be given an opportunity to read and not to be hoodwinked. So, I want to invite my colleagues. I agree with hon. Balala on the issue of land transactions with no doubt. Look at the Syokimau issue. Even though the aggrieved Kenyans built on the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) land, they were given titles to the land. The giver of the fake titles is walking scot-free and yet these people are homeless with their families. We want to end that. If the culprit is the Government, it must payt. I think that is the only way we will regulate our industries. The issues you are raising regarding Safaricom and the Kenya Airways to use dollars is because we have allowed class action suits. On Monday, I was supposed to come from Kisumu using Jet Link. The plane left Kisumu at 2.00 p.m. and yet it was supposed to leave Kisumu at 8.00 a.m. How does an economy work? Somebody in the caliber that can fly a plane from Kisumu to Nairobi is a productive citizen. We want to make sure that some of these people pay so that they do not take our consumers for granted. Sometimes when you go to some of the places--- For instance, the Kenya Airways is doing business in West Africa but in Kenya, they do not have enough flights and yet this is a national carrier. The issue that has been raised about medicine by hon. Shakeel and the whole health sector, I want to encourage you to do a research and bring it here so that people do not die in hospitals like chicken and yet nobody cares. We have built dispensaries through the CDF. The Government is supposed to put medicine. It should not be the responsibility of the MP or the citizens. I beg to move the Bill and hope to engage my colleagues in other fora so that we can improve it."
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