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    "id": 514286,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "not allow our youths to get addicted. So, this is a very important Motion. I want to support it so that we can take all the necessary measures to make sure that our nation is healthy and productive. I want to thank the Member for bringing the Motion. Today, we have rehabilitation centres. In our traditional African society, we had systematic approaches that took care of alcoholism. Now, the police have come into the picture. They have been hard on brewers of traditional brew and consumers of the same. This makes a bad situation worse. For example, when police come across a drunkard who is wasting, they take him and lock him up in police cells. I wish they could take such people to hospital because that is where they belong. I wish such people could be followed up with remedial measures that could help them heal from the alcohol abuse. As a Government, we need to have those centres and make them mandatory. The way we say that we must have schools and churches, so must we have rehabilitation centres. I would like to support the notion that such centres should be initiated at sub-county level. We should put a time frame on this because there are very many things that we have said, but because there is no time frame, they are wished away and overtaken by other priorities. We need to prioritize this so that every sub-county has, at least, one rehabilitation centre to deal with alcoholism. There is the interface between commercial interests and social interests of practitioners in this sector. Sometimes we take the commercial interests too high at the expense of social interests. That is why we have had instances of mothers complaining that fathers of their children are no longer fathers and cannot be fathers anymore. So, we need to have an intervention here because populations and productivity are going down. We need to take care of the environmental concerns because waste management is crucial here. We should avoid environmental degradation. We have broken bottles and polythene papers all over. Some of them contain remains of contaminated alcoholic substances. When children come across those bottles, they are tempted to taste the contents. The same applies to cigarette packs and medicinal containers. We have to take care of this problem. We have the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), but is it not doing what it is supposed to do about waste management. We should have the law re-enforced so that NEMA can be put to account. If NEMA does not measure, then we need to take action."
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