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    "id": 1056253,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1056253/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "officers and enforcement officers in the coast that have become billionaires not because of anything but because they protect the drug rings in that area. The result of this is that we have youths whose dreams have been shattered and broken; youths who know nothing; when they wake up in the morning the only thing that can give them energy like oxygen to go for the whole day, is an injection or sniff of something. This enables them stay alive, not that they will do anything useful in the day. If you go to Kilifi, you will find a place called Kosovo. Kosovo is a place that every law enforcement officer knows is full of drugs. It is an area that drug takers and traffickers use as a haven. The police know this but they will not do anything about it. This is something that is killing the dreams of… We used to think it is only the young people near the shore but it is a sad story if you go to Takau. You see energetic young people who would have had a bright future but their lives have been destroyed because of drugs. If you look at the whole picture, there are people who tell you, “You see that ship anchoring at Takaungu Beach, it is offloading drugs”. If the villagers know it, how about the intelligence service? They will tell you that, that small ship is going to offload drugs to the small boat, tag boat or a canoe. They will use the small harbor that is there, they will offload the drugs, put in small rucksacks and distribute in towns. They will even tell you, “you see that motorbike from Mayungu, it is carrying drugs to Malindi town”. They know it. The law enforcement officers know it better. They know when the ship will dock, which tag boat or small boat will go, which motorbike will carry and which house the drugs will go to, but the enforcement officers do nothing. I am happy that this law today prescribes some punishment; punitive measures on the law enforcers. If this law is applied and implemented as contemplated and ensures that law enforcement officers are taken into account and are held accountable for this work, I think there will be a reduction of drug dealers in this country. So, I want to commend the Committee for contemplating and thinking that we now need to hold the police officers and law enforcers to account."
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