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    "content": "Jameson, my voter is also relaxing somewhere waiting for me to do his work. These are not theoretical things and we have to face them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, Clause 30 seeks to amend Section 33 of the principal Act so as to increase the penalty of being drunk and incapable; so that it moves from Kshs500 to Kshs10,000. If you try this one, there will be no single husband in Luhya land, Luo land, Kalenjin land or Kikuyu land. They will all be in jail because they will not be able to raise the fine of Kshs10,000. Where will they get the money from? That fine is too high. This is the kind of fine that you only limit to people who are drunk-driving. Those are the people who can be punished by being fined even Kshs100,000. That makes sense, but it does not make sense to fine an innocent villager Kshs10,000. These people go even five years without seeing Kshs10,000. Even the goats that they have in Embobut are not worth Kshs2,000. This would not be right. Let us think like the ordinary person and remember that we represent them, so that the legislation that we make is friendly to all Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, the issue of alcoblow should find entry into this legislation. But as you bring it there, I want us to think about it, because its impact is that now, we are exposing children in houses to alcohol. Parents are now carrying beer into the house and drinking it there. While the wives are happy that their husbands are coming home early, the children are now being exposed to alcohol. So, we should think about the alcoblow. It is also an avenue that promotes corruption amongst the forces. The people who are now controlling the alcoblow go home with thousands of shillings because they extort fines from people on the spot. During the Committee Stage, and we are lucky that the Professor himself is a professor of law, he can quickly introduce an entry point for alcoblow. But my confusion is: How will you ascertain without a blood test – and I am a doctor of Medicine – the levels of alcohol in a person? The real test of the amount of alcohol in my system is when you do a blood test on me. Just because of using paper. The real test of the amount of alcohol in my system is when you do a blood test."
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