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    "content": "afford that amount of money? At the end of it all we are attending burials of young people in an unprecedented manner in our constituencies. Most of those deaths are attributable to alcoholism. I look back at my days as a young man and I remember seeing one of the leading brands written, “ Baada ya Kazi ”. Those are the days people used to work from morning until evening and then enjoy a cold beer or something. These days you find people indulging in alcohol very early in the morning, say, at 5.00 a.m. or 6.00 a.m. You then ask yourself what work they have done for them to qualify to take those drinks. We need to look at this matter in a very bipartisan way because it touches the fabric of our society. The Mover of the Bill alluded to the fact that we need to reduce taxes on un-malted beer. There was a time the Keg Beer was not taxed. We had quite a number of people drinking Keg. The taxes were re-introduced and people are running away from contemporary beer; they now prefer the illicit brew. We also need to criminalize those people who are distributing poison in the name of beer. It is high time those unscrupulous businesspeople who are taking advantage of the Kenyan population were told that enough is enough. With those remarks, I beg to second this important Bill."
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