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    "content": "Their lips have turned to be as red as anything. You then wonder where they will go. Not too far from my house, there is a brewery. A woman brews alcohol there. She has been doing it for long until one day the Administration policemen from my house came out and caned a few of them. After that, they became very careful not to make noise. The assistant chief knows about the brewery in that home and yet does nothing about it because he is paid. So, if the assistant chief is paid by the owner of the chang’aa brewery, what will you do? Our challenges in the devolved government are; how will we overhaul the local government administration at the local level to make sure that the assistant chiefs do their work. In the old days when Sen. G.G. Kariuki was Minister for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, assistant chiefs were honest people. They responded to Government orders but now they do not. They are now emperors to themselves. If you go to Maseno or Kombewa to report a crime and ask for the police, if you are a Minister, the police will come in a lot of demonstration like in cars among other things and make a lot of noise. However, when you go back one week later, you will find that nothing happened and that was just a demonstration. In fact, the brewers know that when the police come in their Jeeps and put them inside, they will come out. There is a fee regarding when one is picked up and how they will come out. Life goes on as if nothing has happened. I hope that when we are quoting this as a national disaster, we are also saying that we will overhaul the system when things are happening the way they are. It is very painful, as Sen. Sijeny said and we should not deceive themselves because what happens to children in the village also happens to our children. When children go on holiday and meet a fellow talking in a shenzi way, a different was, and because children admire funny things, they want to know how he has come to talk like that. If they get to know that the fellow talks like that because of taking chang’aa, then they will go and taste and your child becomes messed up. Let us not think that this is the other person’s problem. However, let us deal with the supply side first before we start dealing with the demand side. Like Marx once said, philosophers have described the world in various ways. The thing, however, is to change it. We can sit here and talk about the miseries of drug abuse in various ways but the final responsibility is to change this so that we do not have the menace forever. I beg to support."
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