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    "content": "This Bill seeks to regulate mechanisms at the national and county levels of harambees. That is a good thing and I commend my colleague here for this Bill, which needs to be looked at carefully. As we regulate, we should not hurt the very people we are trying to help or support. I would like us to look at the grassroots. There are many people whose simple tasks are really momentous; they cannot manage them on their own; be it a deficiency of school fees, health care money, be it the passing on of a loved one in a foreign country and they have to bring them back and so on. There are simple things in life but it is their livelihood. How are we going to regulate those small harambees? What surprises me sometimes is when I see the big people like politicians doing harambees for funerals and so on. Sometimes, it is abuse but most of the time, there is a need. I would hate to see a situation where we regulate to a point that those people at the grassroots are taken advantage of. There is a centre for getting the authority, whether it is a license or whatever; they have to get the license and whoever is giving it out wants a"
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