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    "id": 101467,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking towards the Federation of East Africa, one can move freely to Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi. We also know the people of South Sudan are looking forward to joining us. This Bill is lifting specific issues or instances that constitute a crime which should be punished and needs to give us a better scenario. As we support this Bill, it is also important to assert that there is need for us to have an attitude that is positive in dealing with this matter. In our country, a lot of the children are employed by the elite today as house helps. This is not something that requires us to wait until there is legislation. A lot of people who are working in the Government, and in the private sector; people who are professionals have other people’s children taking care of their children in their homes. That is an attitude issue that needs to be campaigned against; this is where the relevant Ministry needs to up its campaign, including the civil society and the relevant organ of this House too. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I remember the former Minister for Immigration, between 2003 and 2005, carrying out a very serious campaign in the Westlands part of this City. He invaded homes of wealthy individuals who were exploiting a lot of children. Since that campaign stopped, it does not imply that actually the trafficking, or the children abuse, has stopped. We have also heard of a few instances at the Coast, at those illegal villas where children have been subjected to sexual exploitation. Again, there is a Ministry in charge of that sector in which we need very adequate programmess to ensure that, as a nation, even as we contemplate the passage of a new law and its success, attitudes are changed; we need to lead from the front. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a very urgent need to audit plantations in this country where families have lived for three or four generations since before Independence. Children have been born, they have grown and cannot proceed with education beyond the primary schools built in these plantations. We have illegal villas which employ families whose children cannot proceed even beyond mid elementary education. All these are issues that we need to address, and I think the spirit of this Bill allows us to open the gates into this practice and fight it. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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