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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lesrima",
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        "legal_name": "Simon Saimanga Lesirma",
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    "content": "Yes! It is 77,000 square kilometres. When chiefs are summoned for leaders meetings, they do not get allowances or night outs. It is a problem for them and their families. The Ministry should look for a way of facilitating the DCs to perform managerial functions. July 11, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1967 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the resources allocated to National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA) seem to be static. We are taking the issue of drugs rather lightly. Kenya is becoming a transit nation for drug trafficking. There is a serious challenge of drugs in schools and among our youth. Yet, I do not see an adequate institutional arrangement to help our children. We need to support NACADA. In fact, we even need to establish detoxification centres for our youths. We need to move into schools where students are employed as drug peddlers and arrest them together with the drug dealers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on community policing, the Kenya Police Reserve in the North Rift play a very important role. They need to be institutionalised. They need to be put under the Provincial Adminstration. They need to be given a small allowance, even if it is Kshs1,000 per month. In this way, indeed, they will continue working without robbing anybody in the villages. We also need them to be re-organised and trained. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have not seen any finances allocated to peace- building committees that have been set up by this Ministry. That money should be set aside so that community policing can be effective in those areas. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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