Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 450183,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/450183/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 43,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I continue to support this Bill, look at Clause 16. You will remember that the last legislation was speaking to the 300 metre rule. This is the time for us to think through this 300 metre rule. There are consequences if we do not fix this law properly. There is a primary school right opposite Intercontinental Hotel. At the Intercontinental Hotel, they sell beer and it is less than 300 metres away from that primary school. At Six Eighty Hotel, they sell beer and it is less than 300 metres away from that school at Holy Family Basilica. At Hilton Hotel, beer is sold and it is less than 300 metres away from the same school. Let us not try and hide in the fact that we will erect walls. What kind of wall are you going to erect around Hilton Hotel, so that it is not visible? Some of these laws that we enact have to be practical. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to speak to Clause 27; the issue of counterfeit. This is where the Government must come in and reflect on the emerging manufacturers of alcohol. It is my humble belief that it is trade wars that have been allowed or mishandled by the Government, that are leading to the death of poor Kenyans. This is because now that people have been licenced to manufacture spirits, and one manufacturing company wants to outsmart the other one, they lace some of those drinks. After lasing them with poison, they export these drinks at night and in the morning when people take them, they will be taking poison. Just pause and imagine. How did it happen that in one day, people died in Murang’a, Kiambu, Machakos and Embu? It simply means that the person who had laced this alcohol with poison overnight actually transported the alcohol beyond so that, that particular brand could be demonized. It is, therefore, time for the Government to learn from the successes of other African countries in making cheap alcohol available to poorer members of society whom we represent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Uganda, there is Uganda Waragi, which is traditional liquor. The Government can learn from this. In South Africa there is Omquombothi which is traditional liquor. There is also Konyagi in Tanzania. The Government can learn from this. How I wish the Government would go out of its way to make sure that traditional busaa, mnazi and muratina is made available to Kenyans in a more hygienic way, so that the Administration Police (AP) Officers who spend their time raiding villages where people are taking busaa, muratina and"
}