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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sabina Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Cabinet Secretary for the concern about drug abuse in this country. Hon. Speaker, if you recall, there was a time I raised an issue about one of the addictive drugs which comes in a nicotine pouch called ‘Velo’. I would like the Cabinet Secretary to take some interest in it. As we are talking about illegal drugs, there are some drugs that are being sold over the counter. They are easily accessible to our children and we are letting them go. They are being imported from other countries to this nation and they are cheaply available. We are losing a whole generation and especially children in high schools and colleges. Waziri I would like you to take some keen interest and do research on Velo. It is a drug that I feel should be banned with immediate effect. Hon. Speaker, I have a concern about NACADA. The issue of drug abuse is a health matter, and I hope NACADA, desists from criminalising it. It should make drug abuse much more of a health concern. Some people are actually arrested taking ‘weed’ and they are taken to prisons. I hope our prisons can work on rehabilitation when these arrests are made. Finally, there is one commandant in Kiambu doing something that other officers can learn from: he is working with the church in rehabilitating and offering even food and counselling to drug abusers. It is working. That is one of the ways that you can adopt and come up with a way of rewarding officers who are doing a good job. On this issue of drugs, there is a lot of money involved. If you award them, you might cease the temptation of them being given money by the barons, so that they instead work for this nation. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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