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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, luckily, they left safely. This is the major problem we are in. Those children were looking for that money to go and drink. That money was not for any other use. We have reached a point where you can lose your life for Kshs3,000 because a certain child is experiencing withdrawal symptoms and must get the drugs whether it is through killing or whatever means. So, when we say that it should be declared a national disaster, it is that bad and it is all over. I am glad that we are at this stage in our country where we have devolution. In fact, the governors and the devolved counties must now focus on this matter so that every county looks at its own challenges as concerns drug abuse and invests heavily in issues of turning around the loss we are making in relation to drug abuse. I support Sen. Elachi on her stand on the National Youth Service (NYS). We should actually take all these young people into the NYS to do roads and bridges, and in turn be paid. In fact, contractors should not be making all these millions of money that they are making. These contracts have turned around to be major businesses by few contractors. Instead of asking the young people to start companies and be awarded contracts, the best thing is to put them into the NYS, pump the money through the NYS and provide the materials and let them work. Their education could even be paid for by the Government after they have gone through this process. The process should be elongated so that those who are joining colleges or universities come directly from the NYS to those colleges or universities. The NYS should be empowered to provide students to the middle level colleges so that our young people are held back from idleness, poverty and the temptation to abuse drugs. I strongly feel that a very well organized NYS scheme will help our young people to do useful work rather than them being wasted away in the villages and urban centres. They in turn become crooks, murderer and make the country unsafe. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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