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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "brought before the House. We will also look at the necessary legal provisions in matters health in counties. On the Cancer Prevention and Control Act, the views that have been raised by Members will be captured in as far as matters referring to cancer are concerned and the amendments proposed by the Senate and further amendments proposed by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. There was a lot of debate on NACADA Act. Those concerns will also guide the Committee because we are going to ask for a report of the HANSARD and look at the contributions that the Members have made, but the part on NACADA is also very critical. The fight against alcohol and drug abuse in our counties is something that cannot be understated. Those of us from Central Kenya had a very intense campaign against alcohol and drug abuse especially fighting second generation alcoholic drinks and illicit brews. The term “second generation” means water and poison. There was no generation of alcohol because we know how alcohol is prepared. This fight needs to continue. When the Central Kenya Caucus has a meeting with the President of the Republic of Kenya, we will ask that this campaign is sustained and taken to every part of our country. It is good that coast region has started the fight against drug abuse. We have learnt lessons from Central Kenya that the people who prepare these alcoholic drinks are also very clever at reading the system. They kept away alcohol during the weekend of the campaign. Two or three weeks after, many of them are bringing back this alcohol. Some of them are now even bringing back expired alcohol. So, NACADA is an institution that we need to focus a lot on. A country that is drunk or consuming drugs is a country that cannot develop. All of us need to be very concerned about the matters of alcohol and drug abuse in the counties. There was also debate on the Sports Act and the amendments that need to go into this Act. The Committee will look at that matter again. Sports are central to our country. Even though aspects of sports are devolved, there is still a big role and relevance for Sports Kenya in terms of harnessing talent and making Kenya a sports country. This will be achieved by pursuing sports for employment, development and other purposes. On the provisions relating to sports, we are going to look at the role that the relevant county governments play in matters sport. This has been read in the Constitution as a residual function; that the function is both at the national and the county levels. So, we will get a good balance of what role the relevant counties can play as we look at matters of sports in Kenya. The other law that attracted a fair amount of comment is the Pyrethrum Act. We are going to relook at this Act. I am also not sure, as Members have raised here, whether there is any role by the Council of Governors (COG) in the nomination and appointment of the Chairperson of the Board. The Board is national and pyrethrum is an international product. I am not sure whether the COG is relevant. I think that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) should be able to appoint the Chairperson of the Pyrethrum Board. That Board should then guide activities of the pyrethrum industry in our country. So, we will look at our amendments again and see whether the CS has sufficient powers to appoint the Board Chairperson to guide matters pyrethrum. It is very regrettable that counties that were growing pyrethrum before are no longer growing it. We urge those counties - Nyandarua was mentioned a lot here - that they go back to growing pyrethrum. Some of these crops that we all grew knowing are economic crops that need to be part of the economic activities that we have in our counties. 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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