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    "id": 949888,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the City of London has a routine where every weekend certain streets are closed down completely for vending. If you go to the famous Petticoat Lane Market on Saturday, there is no other trade than vendors who lay their wares, and people know about it. The same applies to Shepherd Bush Market. Every city must have this kind of thing. However, it is ridiculous to herd hawkers from places where they can sell things to people and take them, for example, to City Park or Marikiti, which is a wholesale food market. So, we need to balance these interests. There is a lady who calls me all the time from Gikomba, whom I have saved on my phone as ‘small trader.’ She was on the front line of battling Chinese hawkers in Nairobi. I want Sen. Kibiru to take note of what the former first Minister for Trade, hon. (Dr.) Gikonyo Kiano, did, although he did the right thing in a wicked and wrong manner. At that time, when they were privatizing and Africanizing trade, they said that streets like Commercial Street, Biashara Street and River Road in Nairobi were to be Africanized and be rested from the hands of the then dominant non-African traders. What the Minister did at that time was not to Africanize trade, but tribalize it. All he did was to take away business from non-African traders and hand them over to one ethnic community. That is where the marginalization of communities in Kenya started."
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