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    "id": 1056228,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1056228/?format=api",
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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": "and it has to be burned down and it is right in the forest. Obviously, it is not small guys who are getting all the way to the forest to plant those acres of cannabis . It is traders. It must have some market somewhere. If you do not kill the market, the production will continue. What I see in this Bill is that it aims at controlling the consumption. If we can control the consumption and the market, then there will be nobody interested in trafficking. There will be nobody interested in producing and hence that will cure the wider problem. As I said, we have that youth bulge. We have a population of 47 million. In another 10, 20 years, if you project it, we will be talking of 60, 70, or 80 million people. In the next 20 years, given the current population dynamics, perhaps 75 per cent of that bigger population will be young people. If they are to get into this drug problem, we are all going to be at risk and we will have wasted a whole generation of people we have taken to school, but after school, they cannot do anything. So it is important that we start sending these signals that nobody will be tolerated. The deterrent value of this Bill is perhaps what will help in changing the mindset of people who indulge and want to mess up all these youth because they are idle and vulnerable. However, because they know that if they are caught the fines are stricter, they will stop. When the Bill was initially bought around 1994, we thought it was very draconian. It said if any of those drugs are found on you or in your house, it could be confiscated. People thought it was draconian. However, it has not helped. When the boat was blown up in Mombasa, it sent a clear signal and we must commend His Excellency the President for that brave action that was taken to blow up a boat. A multimillion vessel was blown up in the sea to send a signal that Kenya would not be a place for drugs and other psychotropic substances."
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