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    "id": 1111067,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Since the commencement of COVID-19, the cases have exacerbated and it is important for NACADA to do as much as it can to rehabilitate as many people as possible. It is fairly telling that since they started the programme at around 2015, they have only rehabilitated 193 persons, yet we have about close to four million Kenyans under drug abuse and alcohol addiction. Probably, in the near future - and I hope the Chairman is listening, Unfortunately he is distracted by the Member for Kikuyu. I would want him to listen. I suggest probably as a recommendation for the Committee to pick up and as clearly stated in the mandate of NACADA, is it possible to partner with various private rehabilitation facilities in the country so that they support them either financially or technically, so that they can get as many people as possible in rehabilitation centres. The few that are supported by county governments and the main one in Miritini is just a drop in the ocean given the number of people who are affected. Many Members of Parliament here can tell horrifying stories of the many people in their constituencies who have been rendered zombies because of excess drinking and drug abuse, especially bang, which is found where I come from and where one of the speakers comes from, plus heroine and other narcotic drugs in the Coast region. It is a problem we cannot sweep under the carpet and wish it away. We believe and trust that this is the time for the intervention that is likely and required, especially among the youths and among the men of certain age and category. All of us know the harmful impact of drugs and excessive alcohol consumption. Many years back, classrooms in Murang’a County were empty. There were no children, but I am now told that the numbers have started to increase after they imported people from all over the place. We do not want the same kind of thing to be replicated in other places."
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