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    "id": 273095,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the onset, I want to congratulate Ms. A. Abdallah for this very crucial Bill. It is common knowledge that we are hard hit with drugs now. It is common knowledge that we do not have a mechanism that can be able to enforce control and abuse of drugs and alcohol. It is true what Ms. A. Abdallah says that alcohol is actually more dangerous than hard drugs. That issue has been reported by the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Commission that whereas their focus was mainly on drugs, we must now look at alcohol in entirety. In some countries, people still believe that alcohol is part of life. They have taken that advantage and destroyed many people. I do not want to go to the details of that but while seconding this Bill, it is important to note that when Mrs. Kimani was the Director of NACADA but because of lack of proper of legal framework, the Provincial Administration just sent her a text and that was the end of her career. We need to have somebody who is well protected and is answerable to this House because the matters touching on drugs and alcohol abuse are so serious that you cannot just let it be the way it is. We cannot live in a world where people trade freely and nobody puts checks and balances within the legal framework to control this. We could talk here for three days non-stop giving you statistics and even people can come here and confess how members of their own families do certain things. People can say anything they want to say but ultimately, as a Parliament, we should go into history as a Parliament that introduced two important Bills; that of alcohol management and this one of NACADA. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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