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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. I want to wholly support this Bill. It has come at the right time. First and foremost, I am aware that the industry controls a lot of revenue and offers employment to our people, both in the informal and formal sectors. It is therefore, important and urgent that we have a regulation. It is just bad manners that you go to a place, and as has been said elsewhere, you find people selling scrap metal and they have no licence. They are not licensed. It is free for all. This country is too developed not to have a regulation in this industry. If you go to the Industrial Area, you will find somebody with a pick-up, a truck or a tractor full of scrap metal and if you ask where it is coming from, he cannot tell you. He does not have to prove because it is not regulated. There is no requirement for licence. Secondly, there is the black market. As said by some Members here, we take this for granted. Last night, I was travelling from Kitale and when it is raining, it is so risky. You must get used to the road to be able to travel at night, especially during the rainy season because there are no road signs. We have so many accidents on our roads because we do not have sign posts. Recently, a transformer was stolen in my area at six in the morning to be sold as scrap metal. We no longer see telephone copper wires out there. They have all been taken. No wonder we have mobile phones. Therefore, it is because of the cannibalization of public infrastructure, the highway signs, the metals and other materials that is actually making us have this legislation to tame people who have bad manners. I say it is bad manners because a sign-post is erected showing a school or how many kilometers there are to another destination and then somebody comes and removes it without due respect to what the other person has done. Therefore, the best way forward is to have a legislation on that because being a developing country, we also want to reach where our neighbors have reached. The Japanese, for example, do a lot of recycling of metals. I have seen cars being crushed there. Here, we buy vehicles and then see somebody putting a metal---. The other day, we were in Industrial Area and somebody was exporting metals to the Far East. You wonder! So, that business must be licensed. We must license the dealers so that they can bring discipline in that particular sector. The legislation is also providing for an inspector. I am for that idea because the inspectors can enter the premises and inspect. I am hoping that there will be a display of a lincense for somebody to deal with scrap metal and, therefore, if one does not have a license, he or she should be punished. We will bring amendments to this Bill to heavily punish those who deal with scrap metals without licenses and those who export without licenses. That is because they are economic saboteurs. Last but not least, I want to say this: For us to industrialize like Japan and Malaysia--- I was in Malaysia some five years ago. They have an industrial park which deals specifically in melting the scrap metal into iron ore and exporting. We should have a safe place to convert scrap metal to iron bars for both local and foreign consumption. We would have added value to scrap metal businesses. We can export and get money out of that. So, value addition to scrap metal is very important. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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