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    "content": "is the mainstay of Meru County. We know that 70 per cent of the per capita income comes from miraa . It has engaged or employed 40 per cent of the working force in our community. Maua Town is regarded as the home of Probox. There is no part of the country with as many Proboxes as Maua. Those are the vehicles we use to ferry people and miraa . Were it not for miraa, those vehicles would not be there. We have over 20,000 boys who ride boda bodas to ferry people, miraa and other crops to the market places. If you ban miraa, then we are going to reduce the workforce that is engaged in gainful employement in Meru. We will condemn those people to be idlers, thieves, crooks and so on. The Government must then be prepared to run after those people wherever they will be as they destabilize those who are working. This House needs to pass this Motion. The Committee needs to come up with enough evidence to prove that miraa is just a stimulant and not a drug. It has been chewed since time immemorial and people have been living with that crop for many years. It is assumed that people do not get children when they chew miraa . I can attest to the fact that Igembe Central has the highest population in Meru County, with over 200,000 people. The schools in Igembe Central are over-populated with children. Most schools have, at least, 2,000 pupils. Those children have been given birth by people who chew miraa . I do not understand why it is said that chewing miraa prohibits reproduction. The pick-up vehicles that ferry miraa pay cess. The former Nyambene County Council was sustained 70 per cent by miraa . I was a councillor in Maua Municipal Council for five years and we were using the proceeds from miraa to pay for our recurrent expenditure and other activities in the council. Very little came from other sources of revenue collection. If you go to any school in Meru, people will tell you that certain classrooms have been put up using money from miraa. Churches have also been put up using the money from miraa . We go to harambees in churches where drugs and other things are condemned, but pastors hold bunches of miraa and bless them because they know that"
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