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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kittony",
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        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jepchirchir Kittony",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. I would like to thank Sen. (Dr.) Machage for bringing this Motion. I am saying this because we serve together in the Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare and we have taken this as a priority in the Committee. As I laud the presenter of this Motion, I do believe that all of us in this country, if we are really concerned, then the menace of drugs should have been put to rest when the National Agency for the Campaign against Drug Abuse (NACADA) was formed. I was one of the members who served in NACADA and for some time, it disappeared but now it has resurfaced again. If it could have continued, maybe by now this country could be different. When the HIV/AIDS pandemic came, it was declared as a disaster and now the percentage has gone down. What am I trying to say? As a mother, I am very pained when I see our children going to that extent of becoming garbage because of drugs and yet all of us in this august House come from these areas. Why can we not identify the hotspots? We know what is going on but we do not want to see. We know what is happening. There is a saying that the root of all evil is money. Surely, we do not want to admit that we know what is happening. Do you want to tell me that all of us are so innocent and that we do not know where these drugs come from? We all agree that there is some laxity somewhere within ourselves and we need to ask ourselves that question. We cannot afford, year in, year out, to keep on saying that there is a problem and yet we are the problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I was growing, we used to listen to our elders but nowadays, there are so many problems and young people do not listen to their parents. There are too many openings where our children are influenced by foreign behaviour. Kenya is a global village and they watch these ills by reading pornographic materials, television and other media influences. These things influence the behavior of our young people in our country. Even if we condemn this behaviour, I insist that we should be honest and find out what the root cause of the drug menace in this country is. We have the police in this country and they should be able to arrest the culprits. We know the canals and the routes used. So, what happens when they are arrested and not taken to book? If we want to make our country free of all these, then all of us have to come out fighting so that we can clean our society of this menace by acting honestly and in a transparent manner. We should make sure that the future of this country is safe from this menace. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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