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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S. W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I support this Bill. I have been going through the items and where I would like to dwell on is the excisable goods. I actually support the proposal to introduce excise tax on alcoholic beverages. My county is one of the counties where we are now trying to rehabilitate people who were affected by the alcoholic syndrome. It is sad to see the Government spend a lot of money on health and also on broken families while we have a few individuals making a lot of money selling these alcoholic products. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when I spoke to the people who were already at the rehabilitation center, most of those who were taking alcohol, were also taking tobacco. I am happy to see that tobacco is one of the items that are going to be impacted by this duty. I am hoping that this will reduce the number of people who were able to access these products. I always say that things like alcohol and tobacco are not things that are a matter of life and death. They are things one can avoid. I would hope that we do not see other companies coming up now. I am very sad to see main companies in Kenya reporting that they are making billions of money out of the sale of alcohol and they all took advantage of the second generation alcoholic beverages being out of the market. Now they are selling and doing booming businesses. The kind of cheap liquor they are giving is going to cause more damage than the second generation alcohol. When beer is served frozen and in a very cold area like it is in Central Kenya yet these people are not feeding very well then it will cause more harm than the second generation alcohol. I am hoping that this House can sit and look at some of the laws that we can come up with to make sure that whatever any company is selling to the consumers in this country is not going to cause any harm. When alcohol is frozen and is given to a man who has not fed very well and the place is also very cold then we will have a lot of cases of people dying of pneumonia. I support. I was a little bit confused when I saw the issue of mobile cellular phones. You know everybody in Kenya has gone digital and I am a little bit concerned on that issue because it is part of the accessible services. I also support the issue of plastic shopping bags."
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