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    "content": "my stock of Kshs600 worth of bananas, I usually need five days. In these five days, my stock of Kshs600 usually ends up going for Kshs750”. The net effect is that at the end of five days, mama mboga has made a profit of Kshs150. She is never listened to and so they say that if she is selling, she will pay them Kshs30 every day. Kshs30 every day, times five days is Kshs150. If she has been paying Kshs150 every day and she clears her stock, at the end of five days, it means she has not made any profit whatsoever. How will she remain in business? The business of us looking educated, “professorial and doctorial”, assuming that people with less education do not understand these things is because we do not understand the poor. I propose that no aspect of any Bill should be exempted from public scrutiny. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to laud the Committee for reiterating in Clause16, that the regulations will be subjected to being tabled in the county assembly. After providing Clause 16, why did the Chairperson of the Committee put Clause 13 that requires exemption? Finally - because I have seen my time is almost up - I want to conclude by looking at page 174, where there is: (i) Purpose of statutory instrument. They have said that:- “In no more than three sentences, please describe in plain English what the statutory instrument does and why. Assume that the reader knows nothing but the subject and explain or better avoid acronyms and terms of art”. This is a wonderful inclusion; it is exactly what I am emphasizing. We do not want the rules and regulations accompanying county Acts to be clothed in legalese. We would like them to be simple and plain. Where necessary they should be put in Luhya language so that people in Kakamega will easily grasp them. I am not saying that the people of Kakamega are not able to read English and Kiswahili but it should capture all those who did not go through or complete formal education. Madam Temporary Speaker, I, therefore conclude by lauding the Chairperson of the Committee, Sen. Sang, who is a young Senator who keeps on impressing me every day. He has discharged himself well in this particular Bill. I, therefore, support that the Bill be read a Second Time."
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