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    "id": 544879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, we are actually overregulating. In the process of doing so, we are stifling the economy. If we say that advertisements for alcohol cannot be carried out between 6.00 a.m. and 8.30 p.m., we are assuming that from January to December, between 6.00 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., children do not do anything else, but sit watching television. I think by that time, they are in school. Two thirds of the year, children are in school. Advertisement is part and parcel of business. If we want the economy to grow, we must generate revenue. An advertisement of an alcoholic beverage per se does not necessarily influence a child to drink. What we need to regulate is how the advertisements are couched and how the message is sent out with disclaimers that alcohol cannot be sold to, and should not be drunk by children. Those are the regulations that developed countries use, but you cannot just say between 6.00 a.m. and 8.30 p.m., you cannot advertise alcohol. You are actually killing the media that relies on business, employment and affecting many sectors of the economy with a law that looks unnecessarily draconian and not very reasonable. I want to urge the Chairperson to reconsider this again before we subject it to an unnecessary no vote."
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