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    "id": 568646,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion very strongly. I want to appreciate Hon. Muhia for bringing this timely Motion to this House. I want to commend my colleagues from central Kenya for the leadership role they have taken to destroy illicit brew in that region. They have done good work and they have all our support even if they bring a Motion and Bills to advance this course. This is because we are losing generations. We are losing very many productive Kenyans who could be engaged in productive activities because of these brews. This is a well thought out strategy to destroy illicit brews in our country. The business people engaged in these illicit brews must be taken to courts. The Government should take swift action and ensure that the Kenyans who are killing and destroying lives of other Kenyans are brought to book. The chiefs, policemen and Administration Police who are not performing must be transferred or sacked and others from other parts of Kenya transferred to those areas to enforce the law as required. I call upon the county governments in those regions to hire young men and women who can enforce these laws. This is because they have the resources, capacity and powers to hire young men to complement the work of the police and chiefs. They should ensure that this illegal business which is destroying Kenyans and particularly very many productive young men and women is eliminated once and for all. As a country we should not allow Kenyans’ lives to be destroyed by illegal businesses. There are other opportunities in which these people can engage in to make money. There are other worthy businesses which they can engage in and because of that, this must stop. As we start in central Kenya, these problems are everywhere. Even in northern Kenya where I come from, miraa is a major problem. There are very many Kenyans who are very productive but are wasting a lot of their time chewing miraa . Even this needs to stop."
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