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"content": "Let us not bury our heads in the sand. Let us come out and say something about it. This matter has been debated in the Lower House for many years back. There were issues between some of the Members of Parliament and their investigators. All these things have been said. The biggest question here is to ask ourselves: How did this problem start? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenyans should not pretend. When you are sitting in your own house with your children, they see you drinking. They cannot tell you how much you need to drink. They just leave you to drink and you enjoy yourself. Sometimes you become very friendly and other times wild. The children also want to practice exactly what the parents do. If we are talking about alcohol, I think that we all know that the beginning of this problem is the parents. If the Senators, Members of Parliament or people in high authority are seen changing by their children and other people on the streets, they will also change. This is because we keep on saying that things have gone very wrong, but which family is quite secure now? Which family is not having a dispute about the current life? If you look at marriages, you will find that shortly after attending a very big wedding ceremony, that marriage will be completely finished. This is because our society has gone haywire. No one knows the kind of society that we are living in, because we have become misfits. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, the sentiment of the Motion is very good and clear, but then let us ask ourselves: Even if you declare it a national disaster, is it not a disaster even today in your own house? If you know that it is a disaster in your own house today, why do you not sort it out in your house first? By the time you declare an issue a national disaster, there is no other thing to go by. It is a disaster and we do not need to declare it so. It is a very big problem in every home. Even if the President, through his own free will, decides to declare it a disaster, what will follow? It is not going to stop those who traffic these drugs from Nigeria, the Far East or India, from passing through this country. Also, you are not going to stop their agents here in Kenya, because you are trained in security matters, you would know that there is no crime of this magnitude that can survive in a country like Kenya, without having the top most officers in the game. For example, why are there frequent road accidents involving matatus and so on? It is because some of the law enforcement officers own them. But if they could stand and declare that they are paid by the system to stop crime, they would have stopped it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, quite a number of families also benefit from illicit brews and drugs. If I am a member of the drug cartels and have my relatives and families who are suffering from economic problems, I will support them using this money.So, let us not sound as if we have found a source of criminality in this country. All the time we have to see whether we are able to deal with a situation like this one. Unless and until the law enforcement officers and politicians in high offices stop collaborating in this kind of business, we will declare this issue a national disaster, but it will be a waste of time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o has just said, let us hope that we will start changing our lives. Let us hope that the new Constitution will bring something new into our system that will give us some hope. This is because the way things are now, nothing is changing. In four years to come, this Senate will dissolve and we will have another group of people. Maybe I will not be here and I can tell you that 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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