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    "id": 1338582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Makali",
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    "content": " Thank you for the chance. I thank all the Members who have contributed to this Motion. As it has turned out, this is a crisis of monumental proportions. We need to approach it from a multifaceted approach by both the national and county governments. County governments are given the power to control drugs. However, we need to tell them that they have to up their game. Article 6 of the Constitution says that county governments shall cooperate with the national Government. Statistics from the NACADA are appalling. As pointed out by all the senior Members of this House, we need to treat drug and substance abuse as an illness and empower NACADA with funds to ensure that we have, at least, a rehabilitation centre in each county. We need to treat people who are suffering from drug and substance abuse not as villains but as our brothers and sisters who require rehabilitation. We need to treat it as an illness and work towards having the people incorporated back into our societies. We need to undertake a paradigm shift in the way we have been treating people who suffer from drug and substance abuse by looking for solutions. We should be rehabilitating them in societies rather than treating them as criminals or harassing them left, right and centre. The Government has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that all barons who peddle drugs and give them to our youth are properly handled. We urge the honourable House to pass this Motion so that we can empower NACADA to deal with drug abuse issues."
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