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    "id": 382137,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion. As highlighted by the previous speaker, we have the statistics because at least any one of us knows someone who is affected either in the family, close to the family or from a friend’s family who has become a zombie. This is what we are experiencing. Most of our young people get frustrated either because they are not doing so well in education and find solace in drugs and alcohol or because of unemployment. Unemployment is a major contributor to this. That is why I support this Motion because if the Government takes it up, it will be able to put together issues of unemployment and what happens to people, especially the youth when they are not employed. We have very many people both in the rural and urban areas who do not have jobs and do not know what to do. So, they try to get solace in drunkenness so that they can forget their woes for some time. If any of this is close to your family, probably they have become a total zombie and cannot work even if the job is available. When someone becomes like this, he cannot work or cannot function. So, it is very important for the Government to take this matter seriously. It is unfortunate, the incident we heard about the Kenyan officials in Nigeria. I do not know what happened but whatever it is, it is unfortunate that when the Government is taking some major steps, some other problems crop up. Some West African countries see it differently and support some of those characters who come into our country propagating what we are fighting in this country. The Government needs to also put hypocrisy aside. There is no way they can tell us that they can identify individuals from West African countries and other countries to the extent that they can hire a jet to deport them but do not know Kenyans who do the same work. I find this to be either total hypocrisy or corruption of the extreme order. I do not think that the Government of Kenya, with all the intelligence it has and the security set up in the country is not aware who the drug barons are. If the Government really wanted to take action, they would do it. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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