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    "id": 851599,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/851599/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "have nuisance youths who every time you put up a post of Sen. Poghisio the next day his opponent‘s poster his pasted on his. And it continues like a running war. We also need a provision, which Sen. Poghisio has not defined clearly, for penalty for people who mutilate billboards and advertisement material. This particularly comes in handy during trade wars and political competition. You have seen how East African Breweries have elbowed Keroche Breweries out of the market in some areas. You go and visit a place and find there is a painting of a Tusker beer; the next day there is a reinforced painting of another drink, and the victim here is always weaker economically. We need to protect particularly local companies against marauding multinationals. There is no way Telkom Kenya can compete with Safaricom without proper regulations. There is no way Keroche Breweries can compete with East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) without proper regulation. There is no way Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) can compete with Brookside without proper regulation. We need to have some order. Let the strong have their way but let the weak also be seen. Let the weak also be heard so that it is through advertisement that you get growth. The penalties being provided should also cover the agencies that licence. If you go to a county government and you get a licence for a site then the same county government licenses another person for the same site that is fraud which should be punished. This is because unjust enrichment is not acceptable under fair practices in business and under natural justice. Sen. Poghisio should expand Clause 18, at the Committee stage, so that the penalties being provided cover all scenarios including those who fraudulently cheat owners of properties and erect sites without paying them. When they are discovered, they need to be dealt with by the law. In such a case, I would want the law to provide that the fines levied against such characters go to the owners of the land to compensate them for the loss suffered so as not to have the money collected and put away without helping the people who have lost."
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