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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Any leader today who is witnessing what we are seeing happening with our youth must take a bold step of fighting alcoholism. The owners of this alcohol are multi-millionaires who have bought the police. They have bought the administration and everybody. Some of them probably have financed campaigns and that is why it takes a bold leader to go to your constituency and say enough is enough. This campaign must go on and it must cut across the country. If you are a true leader who loves generations to come, you must save the youth from this destruction. I remember one youth who was very drunk when I was pouring alcohol. He looked very miserable. I walked to him and asked him why he was looking so miserable. He told me that he is sad that I was pouring alcohol but thanked me very much because I was going to save many of them who were unable to get out of this mess. If you are a leader worth your salt, please do not fight this campaign. This is a campaign that will save generations. This is a campaign that is affecting homes because homes have been destroyed. Women have been left as the sole breadwinners of their families because their husbands have been hooked into these things. I hear people talking about human rights. You know your human rights stop where the other one starts. Who gives you a license to kill? You know something? I will bring down a factory anytime if it is destroying the youth of my constituency because no one gives you a license to kill. We have made these people believe that they have a right to kill because their death is a slow death. We must fight them. We must save our youth, families and generations to come. This is not a laughing matter. This is not politics. This is about life and life comes before anything else. I hope Members here will take that bold step. Let us save our youth. If it was your son or daughter languishing in that state, would you be happy as a father? I know that there is a man or woman crying for his or her child because of these people. We must save them. I ask the President not to relent. We must eliminate that alcohol. The next place we must move to is the coast region. 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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