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    "id": 441048,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/441048/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The greatest effort that Kenyans are making and, of course, the Government, is to reduce or eradicate poverty. We want to reduce poverty in our country and we cannot realise this goal as long as all the productive age of our young people are lost in drinking. They are the ones who are supposed to participate in farming and other productive activities that are going on in their areas. There is still a lot of land which is lying idle. You will find an old man who has sons with land. However, the land is not productive because the people who are supposed to work on it, not just the sons to the owner but also the young villagers, do not want to do manual jobs and would rather spend time in chang’aa dens. This is an area we all have to work very hard to deal with. I call upon NACADA to put in more effort, the chiefs, DOs, the administration to see that we reduce the scale of drinking in this country. We all saw how many people died in various parts of the country, spreading from Kiambu, Embu and Machakos after drinking illicit brew which had been produced. You wonder how widespread the distribution of this illicit brew is if it reached all those areas of this country and killed people. That shows that somebody is sleeping on their job. Somebody is not doing their job. We have officers who are charged with this work. We have chiefs and District Officers (DOs) who are supposed to ensure that this kind of drinking does not go on in our villages. They should ensure that all bars are licensed and that all the illegal chang’aas are eradicated. Owing to"
}