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    "content": "friend, hon. Ichung’wah. I believe giving money to NACADA or empowering NACADA to put up rehabilitation homes would be like empowering too rich property owners for a purpose that they may never serve the ultimate interest of this country. The Government needs to put its act in order. The only way of controlling excessive drunkenness and drug abuse and rehabilitation cases in this country, is to retrain the Provincial Administration so that the chiefs and their assistants desist from this attitude of taking bribes from illicit brewers so that the OCSs and OCPDs and the Administration Police do not have a next source of income permanently from illicit brewers. The Government needs to walk its talk and retrain the Provincial Administration to get tough and to make sure that illicit brew is out of place. I remember during the Nyayo era, Rift Valley was ravaged by excessive busaa drinking. President Moi just put his foot down and banned busaa drinking in Rift Valley and it stopped. The boys started going to school again. They are now reasonable people, some of them are DCs, Permanent Secretaries and others. This is what we should implore the current Government to do and not to hide behind NACADA, that we want to put rehabilitation centers which will force the Government to buy high end homes in Runda to transform them into rehabilitation homes. This will be a drop in the ocean. The other way is, Kenyans like emulating their leaders and the leaders must now walk their talk. They must stop excessive drinking in public places, so that our young children will not see them drunk and emulate them and think it is a privilege to drink because they see their leaders drinking. The Government should enforce and ensure that leaders of certain caliber starting from Members of Parliament should be drinking in clubs or high end hotels which are not inhabited by young boys and girls. We should also be able to control excessive drinking, rather than talking about rehabilitation homes. The other way would be for the Government to spend or rather, divert the budgetary provision that would have been taken to rehabilitation homes to the village polytechnics. Develop more village polytechnics, improve the existing polytechnics and take the children there, let them work, let them train and learn how to be self employed so that they are forever preoccupied instead of being idle because an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. The Government should also do enough to create jobs, so that we have jobs for our children and not create rehabilitation homes for people who walk to bars and walk home when they are drunk. They get spoilt then we want to spend more money rehabilitating them! I intend to oppose this and let my good friend, hon. Ichung’wah not mistake me. This is the view, that young Kenyans must not be rehabilitated; they must be taught to desist from excessive drinking and must never be allowed to see their leaders excessively engaged in drunkenness."
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