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    "id": 355723,
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    "speaker_name": "May 2, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 36 Hon. Oyoo",
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    "content": "Okay. I will continue to say that when a penalty is levied on an employer who deducts money from their poor employees, and then they continue to keep such money instead of remitting the same--- That is tantamount to handling stolen goods. Therefore, this Motion is very good, but it should be opposed. The penalty should not just be 500 per cent. Those people should pay back the money at 500 per cent. They should also be charged with a criminal offence of handling stolen goods. That is because they deduct money from poor employees and continue to use the money to run their businesses. That is what we call impunity and, at this very moment, this country is busy fighting something called impunity. I would like to oppose this Motion and insist that the Government continues to review the law, so that punishment is not only 500 per cent--- It should be the 500 per cent and a jail term. That way, employers who are bent on making more and milking poor employees are punished. Such employees are deprived of the opportunity to get better medical facilities. Those are poor employees who really need that kind of facility. I suggest that more punitive measures be added on top of the 500 per cent penalty. That kind of impunity, if not checked--- Recently, we saw NHIF trying to use the poor employees’ deductions to benefit non-existent medical providers. That is what we call total impunity and this House should take the lead and remedy that kind of bad situation; it makes poor people continue suffering. There are people who sleep and wake as instant millionaires out of poor peoples’ suffering. With those few remarks, I want to oppose the Motion, and suggest that the law should be reviewed, so that more serious punitive measures are legalised. Thank you very much."
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