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    "content": "So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, without even elaborating further because I have done it, we need to scrutinize the origin of these brews because what happens is that the same very rich people are the same ones who would like to continue brewing and sell the same illicit brews to people because they know that is the money through which they are trying to get rich quick through such sales. I know of some people who have industries in the county; these people are known. What happens is that they bribe their way even to the district officers and commissioners and the whole administration is known to allow such brewers to continue operating in the counties. So, now, you start wondering; if we come here and discuss about amendments and the same is not happening in the counties, are we not wasting time? Are these not double standards? Can we not ask the Government to go and stop such illegal illicit brewers and the killer brews? If that happens, it will be done and then we are going to stop people from dying from such drinks. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in Zambia, when the President started crying over brews, he did not just continue crying. Because there was a lot of money from copper sales, he introduced cash crop farming. He introduced a lot of maize corn farming and most people now, instead of being in the copper fields, had to diversify to cash crop farming. Today, you realize that Zambians are not as great beer drinkers as they were before. So, we need to make sure that in Kenya, we have more diversified economic activities so that young men who are idle can be meaningfully occupied. Because if you ask them: “What are you doing here? They reply: “We are just waiting for the day to end.” They have nothing to do and the parcels of land are so small in some communities. We need to make sure that the cash crops which we have like coffee, tea, sugar cane, cotton and all those others are produced and sold so that these farmers can get money. Through such sales, it is possible to even employ those young men, who can even do other things which will be economical to them and the nation rather than just resorting to beer drinking, which according to them is social. So, this is something that the Government should look into seriously if we are going to think about the amendments that we have here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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