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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have been students before. I do not remember during my school days having seen the kind of indiscipline and destruction of property as it is happening now. To be very honest, it is something that should worry all of us who are parents. Certainly, anybody sitting in Government as a Cabinet Secretary for Education should be worried. Madam Deputy Speaker, we were students at the University of Nairobi. I have colleagues who were with me, including Sen. Pareno. Anytime we wanted to demonstrate against either the administration or the Government of the day, we never resorted to burning the property that belonged to the University where we were taking our meals, used to go for our studies or where we used to sleep. It is not right for students to burn premises that provide education to them. I am suspecting that there is a serious problem of drug abuse in our schools. In all these and as this is unfolding, the misfortune is that I have not seen any intervention from the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA). This means that chances are that these very susceptible students have become clients of drug peddlers because you can only do certain things under the influence of drugs. I will propose to the Committee on Education which has very able Senators to summon the head of NACADA to appear before them and give information to this House, whether they taken any steps to tackle the problem of drugs amongst our students in schools. Madam Deputy Speaker, there is also a problem of us legislators. This is because we do not have stiff penalties against people who peddle drugs. If you go to China, if you are caught peddling hard drugs, the first consequence is that you will never be granted bail. However, in this country, you can be peddling drugs today, you are charged today, tomorrow you are released on bail and you continue messing up with our young children. We are losing a whole generation. Whom are we going to hand the baton of leadership to if we leave our students to be destroyed by drugs? We have set up this body. It has been given money. We need to see that it is doing something to protect our children."
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