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    "id": 332799,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oyugi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to congratulate my very good brother, hon. Kapondi, for bringing this amendment. Whereas we are sympathetic to the various families who are dealing with alcohol bills, I think the Alcoholic Act as it is, needs to be dealing with local brewers and regulation of the same. I will be appealing to the Committee that when we are harmonising the various Bills, to ensure that the local brewers are captured in the regulations and the same brought to Parliament for ratification. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the fact that we need to increase slightly the hours for bars to be opened and the labeling as it is in the Act is fairly impractical. On the 300 metre rule, if you look at it that you need to establish a bar within 300 metres of learning institutions – some of those are challenges that the Act proposes and are fairly impractical. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to second this particular amendment and propose that when the time comes, we need to harmonise the penalties of drunken driving as in the Act with those with the provisions of the Traffic Act. That way, the two Acts will not be in conflict. We should increase the penalties that both the Acts"
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