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    "id": 514225,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 24,
        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "As some of the contributors before me have said, when we, for instance, go, with no offence meant, to producers of alcoholic beverages to sponsor football, what are we saying? How do you ask them to spend their money but at the same time you do not want them to promote their products? It is a dichotomy that does not work. The moment you go to them and tell them that you want them to give you their money to promote certain social development, for me, that is signing on the invisible line that we are also allowing them to advertise their products. We have restrictions on advertisement for alcoholic drinks, but we do not have restrictions on attending sports meetings. This thing needs to be tackled because at the end of the day, all the good things that we are talking about, the plans that we have for our country and the economic blue prints that we have forwarded, can only happen if we have a generation of our young men and women whom we can count on to take over from us. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a good Motion but I encourage my brother to take the leap of faith to bring the substantive issues so that we can convert the good intentions contained therein. Even if you collect all the cans and the containers and you do not succeed in confronting the menace of alcohol and drug abuse, it will ultimately have been an exercise in futility. So, my good brother, my request to you is, look at the relevant sections of the law. Let us engage with the people but most importantly, it is time for NACADA to come and tell us what they have done. It is not a criticism but rather an opportunity for us to see where we have come from, where we are, where we want to go and how we intend to get there, working together as a community, and facing a problem that does not discriminate. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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