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    "id": 949914,
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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will stick to the Bill, but the record must be very clear. You have been listening to me as well, and I did not mention a tribe. I said that we Africanized trade and the Minister then handed businesses to Africans. Unfortunately, those Africans were from one community. I do not know if some Senators here know where the parliamentary library is. If you go to the library and read the history of trade in this country, at one time the founding President of this country spoke publicly against what he saw was going on in Nairobi. It is in the records of the history of the country. He spoke against it and I laud him for that. We want this country to belong to everybody. It must belong to everybody. My next point is that as we regulate vending and hawking in this Bill, it should not be an avenue for county governments to now squeeze every ounce of money out of informal traders. The charges that are levied against informal traders must be reasonable and be able to make them earn their living and improve their lives. Equally important, Sen. Kibiru, is that you should provide for penalties with criminal consequences for askaris who battle, injure and destroy the wares of hawkers. Everywhere, you will find that most of these askaris are very well built; I think it must be one of the criteria for selecting them. They show up wielding truncheons and you will see"
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