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    "id": 530746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "That happens with beer and that is why you do not find beer bottles littering towns. The other option is to completely dispose of them. For those that cannot be recycled, we need to find ways by which bar owners and companies that manufacture them would ensure they are disposed of adequately even if it means destroying them. NACADA, being the one vested with this responsibility, has had certain failures that I have observed. Last year, one of the small bar owners in my constituency who sold alcoholic drinks that were laced with some stuff which killed three people was arrested. Instead of NACADA handling the issue from the manufacturer or the source, they went and arrested the small bar owner and fined him heftily. The case is still going on. As NACADA grapples with the issue of disposal and alcoholism, it needs to address it from the point of manufacture so that the manufacturers can probably be given regulations to follow as they continue in this business. I want to finish by saying that drugs and alcohol generally go together. When we start talking about school-going children, it is high time NACADA introduced serious measures of testing our children when they are in school for alcohol and drugs. If this is going to lead to no future for this generation in this country, then it is important that we allow NACADA to go into schools and introduce testing of drugs and alcohol. If we find that it is an extremely bigger problem - I know it is rampant in this country - then we should introduce rehabilitation centers. We have talked about handling at the constituency level. It is high time we came up with one school in the constituency that can take up those children that are affected by drug and alcohol consumption. I support this Motion strongly and urge my colleagues to follow suit."
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