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    "id": 471184,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Duba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roba Duba Bonaya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Mine will be very brief. Reasons why this Bill is to be supported are many and valid and have all been ably debated and presented by individual Members. Speaker after speaker has given reasons why it is really necessary for this Bill to sail through. For me, I share with what another hon. Member has said; that it is long overdue. It is something that we should have done long time ago. We have suffered in this country openly. Things are happening in front of our eyes and noses, which we know are wrong. We know something is being ferried on the streets and it is stolen and there is nothing we can do. We have been absolutely helpless. The Legislature, Executive and everyone else and, perhaps, the Judiciary for lack of better laws, could not do much. So, the reasons are many and valid. The only thing we need to scrutinize in further reading of the Bill is just to take care that it does not stifle recycling innovation. There are many things that the Jua Kali industry extracts from scrap metal. It may, if we are not careful, put the entire business in the hands of big business empires and put it out of the reach of the locals. That could be an area that we need to be very careful about. It may have very discouraging effects on innovation by the Jua Kali local industries. Those penalties may appear for now to be a little bit high. It may also be a factor that may facilitate corruption in the course of enforcement. I do not know how we will strike a balance, but we should not be oblivious of the fact that when scrap metal is stolen, it is very valuable."
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