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    "id": 706737,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "talents of leadership. Young boys, because of economic hopelessness, are turning into serious drug abuse. They are fast becoming zombies. That appointee must find his fold very fast and come up with some favourite concepts that must make his tenure different from what we know. The problem of illicit brew and drug abuse should not necessarily be brought to the fore only when there is hue and cry from the citizens and the President has got wind of it. We should take action before our youth are brought down. He should be busy working on schemes on how to wipe out the menace of illicit brews and harmful drugs that are pulling down the good future leaders that we have. Since this thing is everywhere in the country, I want to urge the new leader to come up with programmes that could make his presence felt in every corner of the country. He should not merely have the head office in Nairobi. He needs to be more present on television and in newspapers and, more so, when there are problems. There is hue and cry in the country because of the economic crunch. We have many constitutional bodies that are working in duplicity. We have bodies like NTSA which is merely doing what the traffic police are doing. When people talk outside there, they only think that the biggest consumer of the Exchequer is Parliament. People who have the opportunity to work must make their presence felt and must make the President proud by interpreting their job description properly. They ought to discharge their duties diligently by making sure that they come up with programmes that touch the hearts of citizens. Those programmes actually should be intended to benefit the citizens. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the new appointee and tell him that we will keep our eyes open and make sure we give him support where it is relevant. Also, we urge the Committee that is supposed to oversee him to keep him on his toes. It has to ensure that no Exchequer money is spent on retreats and Press conferences that do not add value to the very fabric for which the concept was formed. I support and once again congratulate the Committee."
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