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    "id": 439898,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngikor",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Ngikor Nixon",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to give my views in support of this Bill. I think this is the right time for us to find out how we can assist Kenyans who have been dying day by day because of this alcohol. It is time to support NACADA and give them power so that they can control the use of alcohol in this country. I support the Members who have already talked of the issue of creation of rehabilitation centers. Those centers are supposed to be created in all sub-counties so that those who have been affected can be supported and come back to their normal life. The other issue is creating public awareness, so that the Ministry concerned can be given funds, with which the public can get awareness on use of alcohol and through that, so many people will benefit and will support the control of alcohol. The other issue is that Kenya is a working nation and our economy depends on the youth and people affected in this country through alcohol, majority of them are the youth. If we support NACADA, the youth will be assisted and they will support our country because this is a working nation. If we leave it the way it is now, those youth will be affected and our nation will lose focus when it comes to economy. When we talk of local brews; this is where the problem is. You find our local people just drinking from morning and yet we have allocated time for drinking in bars. We need to make it uniform even for those local brews so that people will just not wake up in the morning and start drinking, yet they are supposed to work. There is no need for us to call some busaa others chang’aa and others. That is where the main problem is. We need to support NACADA so that policies can be put in place to safeguard the control of local brews to allow people to take it at the right time and also to have a limit. Not just to take it the way you want up to evening. The other thing is to have laws for implementing this amendment. It is not just the issue of just coming up with the amendment then we leave it that way. We need to have some laws to govern the amendment, so that when we start implementing it, if somebody goes against it, they should face the law. There is need for us to support even the implementation of policies by the Ministry. Thank you, I support."
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