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    "speaker_name": "Samburu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pauline Lenguris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion. It is important to set up strategies on how to help our youth who are engaged in drug and substance abuse. This is a widespread challenge in every county particularly the area that I represent. We do not have any facility that can help our youth or people who are engaged in drug and substance abuse. Most times we are forced to look for health facilities or sometimes refer our people to far areas where they can access services. I think this is an important strategy and approach to help our people because we know that drugs are widespread in this country. Many of our youth have been engaged in drugs and substance abuse and most of them require a lot of psychological and socio-ecological support as well as treatment and these kinds of facilities can help. I would propose that every county should have a facility that can help our people who are engaged in drug and substance abuse. I was recently in one of the constituencies and I was called by the youth, most of whom asked me to look for a place where they can be taken away from their environment. I realised that most of them are willing to get out of drugs. As you know, peer influence is one of the challenges the youth face. I support the Motion and recommend that we have these kinds of facilities in every county so that the people who require these services can access them. It is a real problem. If we do not address it now, in future, we will have a lot of challenges. As we know, the youth are the future leaders of this country. They are the people who will continue the work that we are doing today. We already have many cases which we do not know where to take. We sometimes take them to hospitals, which are overwhelmed with other diseases. I, therefore, support the Motion."
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