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    "id": 544813,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Chairperson, Sir, I also join the distinguished Senators for Nyandarua and Nyamira and encourage my Vice Chairperson – because I am a Member of the Committee – to reconsider these clauses. First, this is a perfect highway for policemen to take bribes. All they will be doing is to raid bars and say: “You have more people than you are licensed”. Perhaps the gracious lady from her attire may not be a person who consumes alcohol. What happens is that every bar has peak hours and lean hours. So during peak hours, you will find that it has more people than probably it is necessary and it never lasts much longer than two to three hours and they go away. The police will just hang around at peak hours and then raid the bars, not for purposes of enforcing the law but for taking bribes in the manner that you know our policemen do. Again, it is very difficult for the bar owner to every time count the number of patrons on the premises and keep away those who are coming in as people go on with their drinking activities. I want to urge you that this law may encourage corruption other than prevent crowding in places. Even drinkers themselves know that if a place is too crowded, they do not even go there. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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