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    "id": 384968,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance again to say something about the Motion that is in front of us. This Motion is very important to our country and if the Government can do what we are going to recommend here, then I am sure we will be quite ahead of other countries in the region. More so, where the youth are concerned with regard to abuse of drugs and alcohol, we have had a very sorry state of affairs even when we listen to the radio or we see what is happening on television. When the people are arrested for drinking after hours and put into cells, they find these illicit brews there and they continue drinking them in the cells. This happened in Kiambu the other week. This is a very sorry state of affairs because they have become so desperate to a point where they imagine themselves dead in order to avoid the miseries which are ahead of them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the nation has a right to protect its citizens from such misery. We think that the children who are in high schools and even primary schools should be protected from such abuse by people who are informed. These are the people who misuse the young minds at a very tender age. You will find that schools are surrounded by drug dens and alcohol hideouts. To the amazement of the Government, they continue unabated and nothing happens. If you report them to the police, they will be arrested that day and the following day, the same thing continues. This is because we have dangerous cartels in the counties that involve the top most police officers. It goes down to the sub-chief and the local agents who are supposed to report this matter to the chief or the sub-chief. These are very many. So, you wonder if it is possible that something can happen in the village and the DC and or the DO would not get to know that it is happening. This means that there is some cover-up by those people who are in charge of maintaining security to make sure that we have a sound and sober society. These people are not helping us. To my amazement, as Sen. G.G. Kariuki mentioned, it is not the first time we are having such a Motion. It was discussed in the Tenth Parliament and hon. Mututho came up with his laws and rules. Today, he is not there. Maybe he was voted out because of coming up with very stringent laws on alcohol abuse, but he will go down in history for having come up with a Bill which resulted to many county officers being sacked. In my area, two to three chiefs were sacked because of this. This should have continued unabated. We should have continued with this trend. The Government should have implemented that law so that we continue perpetuating what we thought was good at that time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also have a problem with the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS). You will realize that when we talk of some alcohol volumes or levels, some brews are higher than the KeBS standards. They even hide behind the KeBS. They place the bottles which have been certified on the shelves when they know that police officers are around, but they remove them and cheat the Government when the officers are not there. This is something we should think about and see whether we can provide 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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