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    "id": 1056221,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "help the bigger society. I saw you somewhere in Murang'a and listened to you and I almost said: 'I know this young man'. When I realised that you had made such a contribution to this Bill, which saves humanity, I could not reconcile the two, but now I have a new way of looking at you and continue doing what you have to do to solve this youth problem. In my understanding, this Bill, apart from just enhancing the offences it also redefines and categorises the differences. For instance, if you are caught with a certain portion, what should it be? If bigger, obviously, you must be a trader and hence you pay more. It also redefines some of the powers of police officers who can arrest and who can do that. It defines the powers for intercepting communication because it has become very sophisticated. It is a high return business and most of these guys would obviously be using the latest gadgets because they want to conceal and even operate from the sea. It is not unlikely that people will not be picking even before it comes to the port. It is not unthinkable that some of the choppers we see could be picking up the stuff off the boats from the sea and taking it to its destination. It is something we have to worry about. We have a youth bulge. Ideally, a country having a youthful population should be excited that you could get a benefit of it. You could get almost like a youth dividend, but what we have in Kenya is not a dividend. It has turned into a diffident, if you get the distinction between the two, because our youth are so prone and vulnerable to being misled. I know it is not just because they are jobless. When I look at the youth, for example, we used to have many youths in Central Kenya who wake up in the morning, not exactly taking these drugs and psychotropic, but they were illicit liquor. You see those guys sitting there, drunk and they wasted their youth. It started in the late 1980s, early 1990s and throughout the 1990s. A whole generation has been wasted. That is why you find classrooms without pupils. You find homes without the men of the house. The men of the house are not visible and the ladies have even decided to start looking yonder to populate the homes because the guys got wasted. This is only at the alcohol level because obviously the alcohol was being prepared not for the normal enjoyment. Anyone who goes to a bar and restaurant to partake, enjoys, but it was kind of done more from a drug perspective."
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