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    "id": 1479872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " It is not fully under the Ministry. Some functions of NACADA have been taken up by the county governments. Since the county governments are looking to collect more revenue, they encourage people to open as many bars as possible, which do not only sell alcohol, but also serve as drugs trafficking dens. The NACADA ends up having no resources to fight the war against drugs while the counties license too many bars close to schools, hospitals and residential areas. Hon. Speaker, you were a Member of Parliament. You remember that when the drugs issue was brought to this Parliament, the former Minister Saitoti prosecuted various issues in this House. As a nation, we need to move this war on drugs away from fighting users to following the peddlers, dealers, barons and international cartels. The users would never get the drugs if the drugs never found their way to Kenya. The problem is way high up than that young man or woman that we are criminalising. The user is at the tail-end of the chain. As the Committee prosecutes this matter, let us also see what we can do to upscale the fight from the ground level where we are criminalising the user, to the highest level of those who are involved in drug trafficking such as the peddlers, barons and dealers, using the available international instruments. Thank you for giving me this opportunity, Hon. Speaker."
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