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    "id": 632267,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to second. I would like to thank the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party for moving this Bill at this particular time. We have had challenges in dealing with contraband goods. We lack a proper framework upon which our security agencies and other bodies that are charged with the mandate of ensuring our safety can conduct searches in our warehouses. Not long ago, we had issues within the sugar sector and a lot of sugar was brought into the country and kept in warehouses. The police and the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) could not even access them because there is no law that allows them to do so. With this Bill, Kenyans can now hope that when it comes to the law, those issues will be things of the past. If you look at the penal provisions under Part VII of the Bill, there are provisions that talk about how warehouses that lie about their receipts will be dealt with. This is important, so that whoever owns a warehouse must be truthful in the way he declares the items kept in his warehouse. This will make us sure that whatever has been declared is really what is there. We have had cases where people keep harmful equipment, but lie that what is inside is either rice or maize. We now have an opportunity to deal with such dishonest warehouse owners. The Warehouse Receipt Council will be capable of providing accurate information on food security in the country since it will be in possession of information of all foodstuffs in grain form stored in various warehouses across the country. This law will also ensure that no warehouse stores contraband items that I have just stated. We are aware that our borders with Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia are porous and that is why we have not contained terrorism in our country. With regard to the grains and other agricultural products that maybe imported or smuggled into country, we can now make sure that what is in our warehouses is legal, so that we can monitor food security situation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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