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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "for Funyula Constituency on matters to do with timelines and deadlines are critical if we really want to be the House that oversees these institutions. As we talk about 2017/2018 on matters finances, I am more concerned about the impact of these institutions on the Kenyan voters. I come from Kiambu County. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am sure you know, even though you come from Uasin Gishu County, that we have very serious problems of alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, dropouts, teenage pregnancies and crime. All emanate from drug addiction. We are seated here today discussing reports of 2018/2019, yet, currently, we are struggling with serious drug abuse. When will issues of this current year be discussed in this House? If this is a trend, it means that the issues of this year will be discussed in 2030. Why are we elected? We are elected to deal with the matters of the day, rescue the generation of the day, provide interventions and solution for the matters of the day. We should be discussing why our young people are indulging in drugs. I would be excited to discuss with vigour and energy reports of how NACADA is sorting out the drug menace in Kiandutu Slums of Thika in Kiambu County and how NACADA is sorting out the issues of proliferation of cannabis. Reports coming from the Kenyatta National Hospital and Ministry of Health are shocking. One in every 11 young boys and girls in Kenya, between 15 and 24 years, is consuming drugs. It is not just drugs but cannabis. They are committing suicide. They are dropping out of school. So, when we come here and discuss finances of 2018 and 2019, yet boys and girls are dropping out of school and committing suicide, what are we doing in this House? I am very concerned that this is the trend. It is us in this House who must change this trend. Let us discuss matters that concern our people’s livelihoods in the current Parliament. Why are we carrying business forward that was supposed to be conducted in this House back in 2017? I served in this Parliament in 2017 and 2018. This is the same story I am speaking about today of young sons and daughters indulging in drugs. It is still happening in my county. What is NACADA doing? Are we going to fund them perennially yet we are still crying over the same problems we have always had?"
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