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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I appreciate that consideration. I want to support this Report by His Excellency the President. The threats to our national security that he has laid out are not unique to this country, they are universal. The only place that we need to address them is how we can sort them out. I want to quote what Nelson Mandela talked about; that is Ubuntu . Ubuntu in South Africa means humanity towards others or the universal mode of sharing as connectivity to humanity. Our national values and principles as everybody has talked about are founded on this principle. If we did this, all these issues that we are addressing here and saying that the Government has failed or the country has failed, I am sure would not be a matter that we would be discussing. We need to do this and to educate our children right from the day they join school so that these values can be inculcated in their lives. Hon. Deputy Speaker, for us to adopt Ubuntu, there must be collaboration among all the stakeholders. That way, we will have a safe country in the future. Therefore, Ubuntu is the way to go – cultivating love for one another. If we had adopted this philosophy, we would not be talking about drug trafficking and illicit brews. A person who sells drugs to an eight-year old child, or to anyone who is below the age of 18 years, does not care about continuity of the population. If Ubuntu is integrated into our society, then we will not be talking about these issues. On tackling drug abuse, we should adopt Singapore’s practice, whereby if one is caught trafficking drugs, you are given a life sentence. There is no politics about it. We should move in that direction. Last year, we all went out to close all the illicit brew outlets, and we met a lot of resistance. 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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