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    "id": 950025,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "public space for this informal sector and effective organization and regulation of informal trade. It also says that it will open it up to public participation to ensure that all these considerations are put into place. Madam Temporary Speaker, when it comes to the functions of the unit, they are well stipulated and I want to highlight just a few. These are to maintain, in collaboration with county governments, a national registry, which will be very key. That way, those who are part of this registry are part of the people who have paid the license. This Bill does not legislate directly to the amount that has to be paid in terms of the license. However, I think that it would be important to also ensure that the licenses do not cost too much and that they are not very expensive. This is because doing so would cut off a category of traders, especially if the license being sought is very expensive. Likewise, going through this Bill, I did not see a penalty clause, and it is worrying. I think the framers of this Bill probably felt that, “Let us not put a sanction or penalty clause because we do not want to penalize these traders who are trying eke a living out of the trade,” but I think it is important. We can regulate, so that it is not such a high penalty, because how then do you deal with a situation where some of the provisions for this Bill are revoked as the trade is going on? I, therefore, propose that, at Committee of the Whole, that we consider putting some sort of sanction which is not very high. We should find methodologies for the adherence to these basic principles, which would be very important. Also, there is the need for the collection of data relating to street vending and street vendors in Kenya for planning and efficient management of street vendors. That way, it will be known how many they are, which part of the streets they are at, which part of the counties are they are at, and what they are doing. This would be important so that some sort of variation also comes in. Everybody is doing exactly the same thing. So, there are no enough variations. For example, everybody is selling clothes along the streets. So, we need to have some sort of variations and decide what goods can be sold in a specific place and how it will encourage and help those goods to be sold. This is because inbuilt competition will not help much."
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