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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "the availability, distribution and use of these substances. Police officers use it as an ‘extortion tax’ to make money. So, when they find them using these substances, instead of doing proper investigation to establish the dealers, because they need to arrest the dealers not users, they instead collect a few shillings from those poor young people who are already very ill. We also know that all the chiefs know all the dens where illegal, illicit, dangerous and unsafe alcohol is sold. Every single county commissioner knows that den. All police officers, Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) and Officer Commanding Station (OCS) know these dens. I am not afraid of calling out the County Commissioner of Uasin Gishu County, Dr. Nyale. I raised the matter with him and I pointed out the places where illegal drugs and alcohol are sold, and they have done nothing about it. They are known to the OCPD. I know of a case of Munyaka Primary School, where the person who brews the illicit alcohol and sells drugs just sits there - a woman called Wanjiru. She has been arrested 13 times and each time she was only fined Ksh10,000. Of course, it makes sense to continue with the trade. Thank God, the OCS of Naiberi Police Station has been transferred. In fact, he should not have been transferred, but fired because he is going to continue with the same problem wherever he has been taken to. It is time our security forces are held to account on this particular issue. If I was allowed to speak, I would go on for two hours, but I will stop there and give other Members opportunity to speak. Thank you, Hon. Temporary speaker for the chance."
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