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    "id": 1009048,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009048/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on a very important topic. Children are a heritage to the society. The way we bring up our children will determine how the nation will move forward. Train the child in the way he or she should go so that in the latter days, he or she may never forget what you have trained them to be. If you read in Proverbs 22:6, it says- “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” What is happening today is that there is so much social impact that children are unable to absorb. Families are torn into pieces because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the socioeconomic disaster that we are witnessing in this country. Therefore, everybody is left on his or her own. It becomes very difficult. Even normal people are committing suicide because of the inability to cope with the economic and social burden that has been placed upon them in the society. Therefore, the abuses that we are seeing is a symptom of a malady that may escalate and extend to a level where if it is not taken care of at this stage, we may see a lot of difficulties arising because we have failed to take stock of this situation in good time. My suggestion will be that children belong to both the county governments and the national Government. However, the national Government has the responsibility of ensuring how their future population is going to grow. When you see abuses occurring, young people who are just---"
}