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    "content": "In fact, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am surprised that more Senators have not been arrested. But the point I am trying to make is that we must address the root cause of the problem wherever it is. When you cause people to go blind with alcohol, we must ensure that the punishment that is meted out on those people is equivalent to the harm that the person has caused. We have heard of people being killed by alcohol; we have heard of people who have been blinded by alcohol. What happened to the people who admit to making that alcohol? We heard vague things about them being arrested and then that was the end of it. So, let us be serious; if we are going to bring amendments to the issue of alcohol control, then let it reflect the same. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when people say that alcohol kills, it is true that alcohol kills, but it kills in more ways than one. It just does not kill the person who died in Machakos; what about the family of that individual? What about his wife and kids? What about the impact that Sen. Abdirahman brought out very ably? What about those people who do not go to work because of that alcohol? But let us also be fair; for example, the example given by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale regarding Hilton, and so on, and so forth. It is not just a bar that can move; and you should not tomorrow, for example, be allowed to build a school near the bar because we are presuming that only a bar is built near the school. We do not understand that also a school can be built near the bar. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we debate this matter and as we look at it more critically, let us be serious and vicious with the issues. For example, as far as the deaths on our roads are concerned, 90 per cent of the deaths are not necessarily caused by alcohol. In fact, if you look at the trucks and buses that kill people, it is over speeding on our roads during the day or during the night where you kill 120 people. That is not necessarily caused by alcohol. So, alcohol is not the one that is necessarily killing people. When people go to Runda Estate, where famous and rich people like Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’Nyong’o live, when you stop your alcoblow just at the corner of Professor’s house and you proceed to tell the professor to blow on this thing, and he is next to his house, what accidents are you really saving people from? Why can you not go to Thika Road, Kabete Road or Nakuru Road and wait for the people there? But to waste that equipment near Muthaiga so that you can embarrass Sen. Murkomen when he is going home, that is not control of alcohol. In fact, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I am even opposed to this Section 30(5), where it is presumed that we are again changing the rate at which you get caught with alcoblow from zero to--- That is a total waste of time! It does not change anything; it would not make a person either drink or not drink when they are driving. Therefore, let us not make frivolous amendments that are really not going to change much. Let us say that if you are drinking and driving these big 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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