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    "content": "intelligence service to the police officers. In the meantime, they simply arrest an individual and before he or she gets to the police station, they bribe the officers and they are released. There is a lot of corruption which goes on around these illicit brews and it makes it difficult to eradicate this menace. On our television stations, you will get to see what our society is undergoing. There are several advertisements which advertise several brands of beer all in the name of becoming strong and awake. When the youth get to see these advertisements, they will try to see whether it is possible to take the beer and become strong; for example, Imarakama Simba . They want to know whether if they take a brand like Allsops, they will behave like lions. That is what happens. The Government has allowed such advertisements to destroy the minds of our youth and that is very serious. As a teacher, most of the problems we solved in schools emanated from abuse and misuse of drugs. I can tell you that unless the Government steps in, the biggest market of drugs is in schools. The moment students are addicted to drugs, they can do anything. They could even destroy property worth millions of shillings and it is up to the parents to reconstruct those properties. This becomes a vicious cycle of poverty. They have to pay for the burnt dormitories, beds and even deaths of some students. So, if the Government is serious, and it can be serious if it means business, it is possible to eradicate some of these things which are happening in our schools. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my observation has been that when recruiting police recruits to the police service, one has to be between 18 and 25 years. What you will realize is that those who will be recruited are the ones who have been out of school for three to four years, because many leave school at the age of 18 years, and by the time they join the police force or military, they will be 23 years after having been subjected to a lot of abuse. When they are in the military camps or police training schools, they already know how to smoke and abuse drugs. If we are going to have sober men and women in the armed forces in this country, these people should be recruited immediately they complete school at Form Four level when the level of exposure is low. We also have the problem of peer pressure. When these students finish Form Four, they find their peers in the villages and urban centres. If something could be found for these youth to do, it would be better for us, because when we do not engage the youth at that early age, then they will start thinking of bad things and that is what they will resort to. They will misuse alcohol and drugs. They should be engaged in manual work like road construction. They should be engaged in the counties or into the National Youth Service to do national works like bridge construction and so on. Lastly, the politicians also misuse the youth when they give them illicit brews and drugs. Let them stop, especially during campaign periods, because that is the time when the market is highest in the country. The politicians must also stop misusing the youth by giving them excessive drugs and alcohol during campaigns so that the poor candidate will be elected, and this is the same person who will come and say nothing about the illicit brews. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. Thank you."
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