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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I pledge to take a very short time since there is anxiety that the Mover should reply. I wish to thank hon. Mututho for coming up with this Bill. This Bill is for the good of the whole country. Those of us who are in politics are aware of the damage that alcohol is causing in the country. If we are talking of developing this country, the youth is the back-bone of the development of this country. When you find the youth helpless, then it is not possible to develop this country. As I speak, most youth in many areas look for money, not for anything else, but to partake of illicit brews. After that, they are unable to do any productive work. In fact, it has reached a point that if you hold development meetings in the constituency and you want to address the people, some of the youths disrupt such meetings because they are either drunk or they want money to go and get drunk. There is a misconception which the Member for Nyeri Town brought up, that probably, the youth in Central Province are unable to make children anymore, and it was suggested that maybe she imports youths from Western Province to go and do that duty. I wish to state that the youth from Western Province also are suffering the same burden. It is just that they, probably, take a different brew, which enables them to continue procreating. Otherwise, they have the same problem and they are unable to partake in productive work. It has reached a stage where youth groups have been formed and when money is brought to the constituency for the youths to borrow from the Youth Fund, they sit under a tree, share the money and go partake local brews. In other words, we are defeating any development that we would wish to put in. I hope that at the Committee Stage, we will bring up some amendments, so 33 Wednesday, 7th April, 2010(A) that we increase the fines that will be imposed on those people who will be selling these illicit brews in homes. The sale of alcohol in homes is really tragic. As I speak, a retired senior teacher in my constituency at a place called Soysambu was killed hardly two days ago by the Administration Police (APs) after he had taken illicit brew. The police have actually collaborated with the brewers of these illicit brews to the extent that most of the time, the APs and the police are busy chasing after illicit brewers, namely, the"
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