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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kanini Kega",
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        "legal_name": "James Mathenge Kanini Kega",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to second this very important Bill by the Member for Kikuyu, hon. Ichung’wah. First of all I want to recognize and honor posthumously my good friend, our departed hero, the MP for Gatundu South who after acknowledging that there is a huge problem of alcoholism gave out one of his houses in Runda to be used as rehabilitation centre. We should now go beyond looking at this issue from a philanthropic point of view to entrenching it in law. It was painful to see over 100 young men and women die after being poisoned by what was supposed to be beer. It happened in Makueni where my good friend, hon. Maanzo comes from. It also happened in Embu and Kiambu. It is high time we bit the bullet and agreed that alcoholism is not just a lifestyle issue rather it is a problem that we have at the moment. We have lost many young men and women who we believe are the engines that are going to push this country to the next level. During recess we went to our constituencies. Sometimes when you want laborers or people to do certain jobs, you do not find people to do such work. In fact, we had an instance which was aired on one of the leading television stations whereby the young men are not ready to work; it is actually women who are doing the manual work. When you inquire and check you realize that the young men are indulging in alcohol drinking. It is high time we set up rehabilitation centres from the constituency level. As I said earlier, these cases are not isolated; they are happening all over the Republic. It is important that special funds be set aside to set up affordable rehabilitation centres. At the moment, for any person to be admitted to a rehabilitation centre it costs about Kshs100,000. How many of those young people can The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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