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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Allow me to thank Sen. Kwamboka who as she said is a “born town”. She was born in Nairobi and raised in Dandora. These are very important questions and I am glad that Sen. Were has chimed in because she is spot on in the issues she is raising for these two Statements. First, I am happy the Chairperson of the Committee on Education is here. She is a very able Chairperson who was trained by me when I was a Chairperson and she was my vice chairperson. Madam Deputy Speaker, on the issue of the school fires and unruly cases, no one is talking about how these children when they came back to school were integrated. These children were away for an entire year. Was there any counseling looking at the mental health issues? Many of them were in very tough situations at home because of the economic conditions of last year. It has been a whole year. We need to understand what the plan for reintegration of these children are. There is post-COVID-19 trauma. Some lost relatives. Some had a tough time because of the economy. So, it is whether that post-COVID-19 counseling has been done. Secondly, the Committee needs to look at possibly together with the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology is on the issue of reporting of these incidences. Children at that age are susceptible to peer pressure. When they see that this school was burnt and it is on the media, tomorrow another one and they are being asked why they have not burned their school also. On the issue of how we are reporting this, should we stop reporting these fires? Do these children have phones where they are conspiring between each other? That is a matter that needs to be investigated. Madam Deputy Speaker, in addition and I hope the Chairperson can actually look at this. These children are in a very dire state in many schools. I have visited a number of schools in Nairobi over the past two weeks. I have gone to seven or eight of my schools."
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