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    "id": 935858,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/935858/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
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        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have been here for quite a while. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I support the amendment to the Bill to give it teeth as opposed to what was there before. We have heard stories of many SMEs closing shop because of circumstances that we have been listening to from the other speakers, such as frustration by the buyer. We have seen the abuse of buyer power. I am not just talking about the supermarkets that have been highlighted. We have also seen institutions like the National Youth Service (NYS) being highlighted. When they came up with a list of all the people who had not been paid, some of them were the mama mbogas and all those small-time businesspeople and yet, everybody else was paid. Those are the kind of people that will be protected. This country has opened up space for women, youth and persons with disabilities to do business. We welcome that. Everybody welcomed it. But what has happened after that? We have sad stories of those companies collapsing. The proprietors of those companies have died because of stress and frustration. They have borrowed money that they cannot pay. This has been going on in our country. It is a good thing for us to come up with an institution and give it teeth so that it has investigatory powers and can even institute sanctions against some of the big companies that have put our citizens into those kinds of situations. Those who have been given those powers - the CAK - should operate beyond reproach. That is critical. It will not be another avenue for other people to start making money from the same people that we are trying to defend. Finally, let it not be that the special interest groups that this country has worked so hard to protect and to open space for does not again become counter-productive in the sense that it does exactly the opposite of what it is supposed to do. I support the Bill."
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