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    "id": 812800,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also add my voice on this important Petition. Allowing counterfeit products into our markets is an economic crime which is committed against the businessmen and citizens of this country. Besides, the pretense of fighting counterfeit products at the expense of our young people and small stakeholders is an economic crime. Our young people should not be fought in the pretense of fighting counterfeit goods entering into the country. We need to be serious on big traders who import counterfeit goods everyday into this country. I therefore urge the “Super Senator” of Nairobi City County to go further, once this Petition is presented to the Committee. The Committee should first look into the capacity of KEBS. If there is a Government agency that is punishing and letting down this country, it is KEBS. The Committee should therefore, investigate the capacity of KEBS and whether they are even able to look into the standards of products that are entering into this country and those that are being sold. Do they even have the competence? Under what policies and regulations are they enforcing some of the weird and careless restrictions that we are seeing them implement? In fact, when we talk about the imported sugar that was said to be contaminated with mercury and other contaminants, I thought that the first recommendation we could have seen from them was the disbandment of KEBS or its investigation because it is the one that is letting this country down. The Committee should therefore, not let us down. Theyshould look into this Petition very seriously. They should not only look at counterfeit products in terms of those that have been denied entry into the country, but also all othercounterfeit products we see in our markets today. We are not safe as a country. We are told even the medicine we take and the bottled water we see around, we do not know who has looked at the standards. Today, there is nothing we can trust to be very safe whenever we are buying. We are also buying things that are sub-standard. You buy shoes today or any household item, and it does not last because these are counterfeits products that have been carelessly allowed into the country. I think it is high time that the Ministry of Trade should look into this. I urge our Committee to look into this Petition very seriously and report to this House on what measures are to be taken after this."
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