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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "we visit that there are street children who pick these bottles, put glue in them and you find them sniffing glue from these bottles. These are the bottles that at one point in time had some alcoholic drink in them. So, we are asking ourselves: Are we taking care of our youth? Are we taking care of the environment? How are we dealing with waste management? Therefore, this Motion comes in to respond to that question. We have been saying that we speak to our youth as they are the leaders of tomorrow. Our youth cannot be the leaders of tomorrow if we are destroying them today. Therefore, we are looking at how we will assist the youth, so that they do not get tempted to use commodities that at the end of the day will not only mess up with their health, but will mess up with their lives. There has been an outcry about the boy-child. Women have been accused that day in, day out they talk about the girl-child and no one talks about the boy- child. We are saying, if you want us to talk about the boy-child allow us then to address the problems that the boy-child is experiencing in villages, rural areas and urban centres; this is the way to deal with it. Let us require industries to manage their waste. In my practice as a lawyer, I have seen very many petitions for divorce. Most of the issues that have been raised in those petitions as the grounds for divorce are that petitioners have accused respondents of neglecting their families. Why do they neglect their families? It is because most of them partake of traditional brews that are not good. We know that there are traditional brews that are okay. Our elders and ancestors partook of them. Muratina is one of them and we have never heard of a situation that someone has died of liver cirrhosis because of partaking Muratina, which is a traditional brew that is commonly accepted in our towns and homes. But when we partake of other drinks that are not known in law, that do not enter the market through the right procedure, that is where the problem lies. You see families breaking up because when they partake of these drinks using some containers that have been thrown somewhere, they recycle them, and that is where the problem lies. For us to protect our families, let us start by passing this Motion. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have also seen cases where children have killed their parents. What was the reason? A boy went and drank, lost his sense and ended up being brutal to the mother, sister or other people within the family setup. This is the only way we are going to curtail the violence that we have seen in our families. My brother, hon. Kigo, has spoken about NACADA. We, as Parliament, allocate a lot of money to NACADA as an institution that is established to ensure that our youth do not end up rotting anywhere because of partaking of these kinds of illicit brews. They should go a step further and conduct mentorship programmes. When our children are at home during holidays, let NACADA organize mentorship programmess to speak to our youth and tell them the way to go in as far as partaking of any illicit drink is concerned. Let us have sensitisation from the family level where parents, children and everybody else are sensitized to stop partaking of such illicit brews. This is going to help us in ensuring that the rise in crime that we have seen in our country is curtailed to some proportion. So, I beg hon. Members who are present in this House today. This is a very important Motion that we should support and ensure that it passes. The implementation Committee then must go a step further to ensure that it is implemented because we are 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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