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    "id": 1157436,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Thank you; that is even better. The only appeal we can make is to ensure that if the Bill goes to Mediation Committee under Article 113, there will be no mediation. There will be no mediation because we will agree with the amendments. This is good news. As a country, we have another crisis; that of substance and drug abuse by our children in schools. If I want to have a revisit of any amendment of the Constitution, we need to begin by amending Article 49 of our Constitution, so that we make any offence dealing with offering or selling drugs to students a non-bailable offence. If the Government arrests you in the process of offering drugs to our children in school, we should have you locked up and your case should be heard while you are behind bars. Then, we make the offence to be more punitive and serious. If you are arrested in China trafficking drugs, the first thing you know is that you will never be granted bail. Secondly, if you are found guilty and convicted, be sure that no member of your generation will ever see you, because you will go in for life. Nonetheless, in this country people are arrested with hard drugs, which they sell to our own children in schools. They are arrested on Monday, on Tuesday they are out and Wednesday they are back to the same institutions selling the drugs to the same unsuspecting students. We need to relook at our Constitution, revisit Article 49 and make offences dealing with selling of hard drugs unbailable and make life imprisonment as a penalty you receive if you are found offering drugs to these children because you destroy the lives of these children for life. They are at an age when they are vulnerable and cannot make the right decisions or judgement. Some of the people engaging in this business are people these children"
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