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    "id": 450214,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "and forks and the men walking around drunk and saying that that the job was too hard. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not every man in Nyeri who is like that but it is sad to say that we have our fair share of drunkards; people who can no-longer work. This has impacted very negatively on the boy child. Since the father is not there, the boy becomes indisciplined; he also becomes a drunkard. So, this is a matter that is of great concern to us and we would like the issues as raised in this Motion to be implemented as quickly as possible. Of particular importance to us is the realization that alcohol is not expensive just because of the fact that it is sold by big companies. Alcohol is expensive because of the taxes that are related to it. A while back, the East African Breweries, through the Kenya Breweries produced a beer called Senate . That was a reasonably priced beer and a lot of people could afford it, but what happened is that the Government came in and imposed very high taxes on this beer and forced those who were drinking a decent and healthy beer to reverse to badly produced alcohol. While saying that, one of the amendments that we hope Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki will bring to this Bill is to say that if you produce an alcoholic drink that then results to the death of people, that alcoholic drink must be assumed to be a murder weapon. If you do not say that you will punish those who kill other people with alcohol or life imprisonment, what is to stop an individual tomorrow under the guise of producing alcohol from poisoning a whole lot of people? This matter is a bit more serious than we are taking it. The fact that people can die in Machakos, Embu, Kiambu and other parts of this country on the same day, what is to stop people from tomorrow taking a particular alcoholic drink to Nyeri County or Kisii County and poisoning the whole county? The only thing that can stop this is to amend this so that those who cause death by selling alcoholic beverages must be presumed to be murderers and causing murder. There is no other way of treating it but to bring such serious amendments – and we hope that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki is listening to this. Unless we can bring amendments that are that serious, then we are wasting our time here. When an individual produces alcohol that is so bad that when people drink it, they actually go blind; only that they do not know that they are blind. They even proceed to say “even if you switch off the lights, we will continue drinking;” not realizing that they have gone blind---. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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