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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Sorry. I stand guided. If you allow, as Hon. Kimunya is saying, this amendment, it means that any person who applies must get a licence. Assuming the area that you are applying is very small for purposes of distribution, what happens? If 100 people have applied to do a distribution of one-kilometre square, what happens? Do you give to the 100 applicants? You have to go back to the aspect of Clause 145 which gives requirements of a licence. Secondly, Clause 149 on factors to be considered…. They could have qualified all of them, but you have to decide whom to give. Of course, as Hon. Cecily Mbarire has just indicated, Clause 168(1)(d) is very clear. But most importantly, and I think this has been said, is that the Competition Act allows everybody to be accorded equal playing field without discrimination. If you remember, in some other clauses before this we were saying that if you are migrating from one person to the other, you must carry the burden. All this is carried in other subsequent clauses that we have already amended. Again, this is going to affect…Now we have agreed on the first amendments that we were doing, and you bring this, then what happens to the amendments of the clauses that we have already agreed to? I stand to oppose this amendment."
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