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    "id": 441073,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Sen. Muthama, the distinguished Senator for Machakos is very sorry for that unhelpful interlude. I want to thank Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki for bringing this Bill in this House, but I also want to oppose it for several reasons. First, if the Senate Majority Leader wanted to enhance the powers of NACADA, give them a fund and deal with the issues to do with NACADA. He should have been courageous enough to amend the NACADA law and not this. Secondly, I hope the distinguished Senator for Tharaka-Nithi has read the history of the war against alcohol in the United States of America when the State came down with brute force to fight consumption of alcohol, more particularly in New York and Chicago. What emerged is the now famous phrase boot legging. You appear to be controlling something and you send it under and create even more dangerous trends of consumption with more dangerous consequences. So, I would have urged my brother to consult widely on this before he brought this Bill here. Reading through the Bill very quickly in the last ten minutes, I can see the hand on one Mututho in this Bill. This is a man who soldiers in a hate campaign against anybody who consumes alcohol regardless of what happens after consumption. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I say this because this afternoon, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance is reading the national Budget across the road and one of his biggest sources of income; the second largest source of revenue for this Government is alcohol."
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