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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to oppose this Bill. Yesterday we were supposed to have been here in Parliament, but we were around talking to Kenyans for reasons that many of us can guess. When you go round this country in every shopping center, the young men who try to reach to you, you would do anything that is possible within the law including enacting legislation in this House to totally ban alcohol in this country. It has taken the population the wrong way. We are not advocating for total ban but levels of restrictions must be enhanced. We cannot allow bars next to schools. We cannot allow young people to drink in the number of hours they are drinking. This economy cannot grow if we do not take care of those people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, sir, even as we appreciate that this can best be done at the county level, we cannot allow ourselves to wait for another two, three or four persons to die because the county government is coming into operation in the coming months. Whatever we can do now must be done. I ask my good friend, Mr. Kapondi,to reconsider this. I know we may have difficulties of enforcing and I would rather we look at ways of enforcing rather than making it easier for people to continue drinking. I would like to invite him to even come. It is not just in Central Province. I have given him the statistics. However, if they are not in your neighbourhood, I want to invite you to our areas and sympathize with the human being who is actually dying on the day. We take it as a joke when we say that they cannot make babies. That is just a joke. If you look at the damage that we are suffering as a nation; the waste of very young people that we are going through, you actually cannot allow this kind of amendment to go through. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks and many other feelings that I have inside myself, I beg to oppose."
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