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    "content": "then bring it back to the village for people to drink it? Let us think of the majority of Kenyans; a majority of Kenyans are poor – 95 per cent of us cannot afford the ordinary beer from Kenya Breweries here. You cannot legislate for 5 per cent and make it criminal for 95 per cent of the country and hope that you will succeed; you will not succeed! They will resist, they will go under and they will revolt. So, please, make a law that suits everybody. Allow people to drink what they can drink safely. Let me tell you, before this law which was brought, the “Mututho” law as we used to call it – and now we are strengthening it – very few people died. They only died of kumi kumi at one time. But when I was asked on television whether kumi kumi should be abolished, I told them that it is not kumi kumi that killed them; it is the adulteration of kumi kumi that killed them. Because kumi kumi had been so popular; it cannot be so popular and yet it kills people! It was already good, and that is why it was popular; but somebody adulterated it. So, when you make things very difficult, people go under. It had already been brewed and that is why it was popular. However, somebody adulterated it. When you make things difficult, people go under. Let me come to the issue of fining drunken people. In most cases, do not bother fining drunken people. These people have no problems. A drunken person sleeps anywhere he will feel sleepy. Why should you drag him to court? Let him sleep and when he gets up, he will go home. Leave people alone. Do not make laws that entail collecting people who are drunk and sleeping on the roadside; taking them to court and fining them Kshs10,000. First of all, they will not pay that money. However, you will have to look after them. We do not want to waste public money on drunken people. Let the people who want to get drunk get drunk and those who want to wake up to wake up to do their work. If you make this too restrictive, people will start getting drunk. People drink for social reasons. If you restrict them, they will still get drunk, run into the wilderness and die there. I oppose."
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