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    "content": "per cent followed by the Rift Valley, Central, Coast, Nyanza, Nairobi and North Eastern provinces. With regard to tobacco, Nairobi leads with 16.7 per cent of all smokers. However, we have users of substances like kuber which has come and is affecting about 16 per cent of the Kenyan population. Shisha is something that seems to be new, but is already affecting 2.0 per cent of the population. We also have other substances that people do not want to refer to as drugs. These are things like miraa and muguka . North Eastern Province leads at 38.7 per cent followed by Eastern with 13.0; Coast, 15 per cent; Nairobi 12.8 per cent; Nyanza 4 per cent; Central 4 per cent; and, Western the least with 2. 6 per cent. The information I have shows that initiation into the use of drugs starts at the age of 10 in our country. Tobacco is the most addicting followed by bhang and alcohol. Legislation is inadequate. We address what we see in statistics not knowing that we have fewer rehabilitation centres apart from Mathari Hospital that can handle the sick people. It is also important to note that there is also very little money allocated to fight this scourge. In the last few months after the President took over, hardly a day passes before he raises concern for the whole country to watch out for the menace; the drug and alcohol abuse, indeed, to the extent of ordering that nobody associated with the drug trade should be entertained in this country. I do not have to go into the nitty-gritty information and on the effects on health and other parameters that I have mentioned. It is all over for us to read. However, the important message for us is that we have lost our Coast, we are losing Nairobi and Western Kenya. The whole country is burning. It is my request that this House passes this Motion so that the Government can see the extent of the scourge and come up with better facilities to fight it before the country burns out and before we lose Kenyans and before drugs take over. Hardly any crime happens without us recognizing that it is not associated with drugs. The HIV/AIDs scourge kills about 70,000 of our population per year and about 15 per cent of which are drug related. We have now homosexuality coming in and gay sex, all associated with drugs. I beg to move and ask my friend, Sen. Obure to second this Motion."
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