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    "id": 1055124,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "as amended, strengthens and brings up the element of charging law enforcement officers who are caught up in the ring of drug trafficking, consumption and production. This will be very good. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the things that we believe this Bill will bring in strongly is recognition of alternate forms of punishments, especially when it comes to our youngsters who are slowly driven into this menace by people who want to make money out of them. This young generation needs not be put in prison. This young generation needs to be put on rehabilitation. This young generation needs to be put on probation, so that immediately they recover from the menace, they can get back to school and we preserve the future generation. It is true that when some of these young men and women are put in prison because of taking things like bhang, we only add to their problems. They do not reform. They come out more dangerous criminals than probably the way they went in. For that reason, some of us are proponents of this alternate way of punishing offenders and especially bhang traffickers, which in some countries like Ethiopia, the consumption of bhang is not an offence, but they take offence if you are caught trafficking or transporting it. For us to be somewhere in the middle, it is good that we consider especially the young generation in school. When I hear a pupil in Standard Seven or Standard Eight being caught with a few rolls of bhang, I get worried about the generation. If we have a way of rehabilitating young men and women, we can preserve our generation for tomorrow. I fully support. Once again, I congratulate our Chairman for the leadership he has provided on this important Bill. Thank you."
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