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    "id": 471104,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471104/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "From the outset, it is important that we come up with various legislations to manage various resources that we have in this country. Scrap metal is one of the worst nightmares we have been having for a long time now to the extent that any investment put in place ranging from gates to pipes for water projects are now at risk because unscrupulous traders collect scrap metal regardless of whether they are really scrap material or stolen items. Therefore, this Bill has come at the right time and we need to support it so that the scrap metal industry is regulated. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is shameful that this country exports metals while we are not mining any metal. You will find our factories are looking for materials yet we are boasting that we have scrap metal for export. Therefore, we really have to support this Bill from the outset so that the field is regulated with the right penalties to discourage people from stealing scrap metal. We must have ways of vetting the materials which are delivered to the various factories so that the sources are clearly stipulated and marked so that the people who go round stealing gates from our institutions and sign posts on the roads are punished. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is really bad that this country got the first modern road, the Thika Highway and we have seen that already the road signs are being removed. I was shocked yesterday when I was driving along the Limuru-Nairobi Road, the dual carriage road and found that the barriers between the two roads which were built way back in 1992, have started falling down because vandals are demolishing them at night to get scrap metals. Therefore, we really need to even amend this Bill further and ensure that the penalties are very punitive because people are going scot-free and yet they are stealing from the public."
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