{"id":699220,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/699220/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Muhia","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":968,"legal_name":"Wanjiku Muhia","slug":"wanjiku-muhia"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which is timely. We are now looking at the global market and, indeed, competition has been regulated in order for business to continue. Authorities need to be given powers as it is stipulated here, especially in Section 4, on how to minimize the number of quotas that want to interfere with market forces. Market forces should be left to flow naturally, but clever business persons try to manipulate the forces to suit their own interest. Monopoly has been an issue in our country, but this could be cured by this Bill. We have seen, time and again, some companies doing bait-advertising. That is unfair to the consumers. Some companies go on air or print media to advertise products and promise that the products, say, mobile phones, will be in the market and shall be sold at a particular price. Unfortunately, when consumers go to search for the products, they do not find them. This is indiscipline and it is unfair to the consumers. So, this Bill will cure those strategies which are not necessarily clever because, at the end of the day, they lack integrity."}