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    "content": "because the miraa businessmen employ children to distribute miraa . This has led to child labour. As you know, Chapter Four of our Constitution on the Bill of Rights, Article 53(d) provides that we need to protect a child from any abusive or exploitive labour. As we try to make miraa an income generating business where it is grown, we also need to know that miraa has brought some negative effects to some people. In addition to that, I have been a student in the Kenya Methodist University and I know that if you meet a miraa transporting vehicle, you should not stand by because it will go over you. It is as dangerous activity along the road. We need to curb it. They drive very fast and cause a lot of accidents along the Meru-Nairobi Road. If you go to places where people consume a lot of miraa, you find that some people are sick and others have teeth problems. We need to come up with strategies to ensure that miraa is not accessible to underage children. We need to limit the age of the people who are supposed to chew miraa, maybe to 25 years and above, so that even the productivity of men can be realized in their families. Finally, when you chew miraa, it gives you hallucinations and as a result, you think you are a rich man at night and then in the morning, you are a poor man. You end up stealing or engaging in illegal activities because miraa makes you hallucinate."
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