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    "id": 544887,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I support the amendment. We all know how powerful television or any media, especially electronic is. Whatever is advertised makes one who is watching it, want to have whatever that is and try it. I do not agree that that can deter. I do not know whether you read the newspapers the other day; it is a pity that school children were arrested because they were in a party drinking. They bought alcohol. When their parents came home, they found them all drunk. The neighbours called the police, who arrested the children. They were all under 20 years of age; they were 15 or 16 years old. Knowing how powerful advertising is, we will be exposing the children to something before they are mentally capable of judging for themselves. That is why even smoking was banned because they showed university graduands smoking in campus before they graduated and they looked as if they were wangwana; how good it is. We should protect our children. I do not know if we should think that when you protect children from alcohol it is a draconian law. It is just jealously guarding our children. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a platform on advertisement of alcohol and cigarettes. If WHO is doing it, they are not doing it for the developing world. They do it, for all children of the world. Let us protect the children and not expose them to bad habits."
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