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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also thank the Leader of the Majority Party for those kind words. I wish to second this Bill. I want to say from the start that this is a very important Bill, particularly for tradesmen and all of us who go to shops, supermarkets, drive on our roads and those who go to hospitals. This Bill is very important because it is about measurements, quantities and value for money. Recently, I was inspecting road construction in my constituency. I was very keen, and the good engineer in the House will bear with me. The engineers were saying that if you were to reduce that road by even half a metre, it involves huge quantities of material; a lot of money and time would be saved. That tells us that when there is arduous undertaking in constructing our roads, we must ask ourselves why a job should not take four or six months if it has been slated to take two years. These are the details contained in this Bill, particularly in the secondary and in the working standards or the working measurements providing us with legal materials. That is quantified in terms of when we say we are paying so much for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). It is about the quantities where this Bill provides the guidance. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you go to a supermarket, you will find about 10 to 50 brands of unga for ugali or chapati . From the face of it, you may find that the packaging of the quantities might look the same, and sometimes the prices are fixed. There is a shopkeeper who told me that if you go to a supermarket, pick two packets of maize flower from different companies and weigh them, you may find there is a variance in terms of weight, substance and quality of packaging. This Bill provides guidance to us. Another area I want to speak on is that of offences. Clause 20 of the Bill provides that every person who is in possession of or controls for use of trade a weighing or measuring equipment not indicated in terms of some weight or measure authorized by this Act commits an offence. Those of us who come from rural background are privy to a weighing machine that is found in most small shops. However, in those days, more often, the shopkeepers tended to be smarter. They would tie small weights on strings. They would even slip one when measuring 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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