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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to say that I am a proud chairperson of a board of a school in Nairobi. I deliberately as chairperson ordered that there should be CCTVs in the dormitories. The boys objected and protested, but eventually we had our way as the board. How did this help? A year ago, these boys did not know that we were recording them at night. This boy and a few others got paraffin and lit one of the dormitories. The unfortunate thing about that fire is that there was one boy who was either epileptic or had a problem and that boy escaped by a whisker. He was almost burnt alive in that dormitory. Madam Deputy Speaker, it then confirmed that, in fact, while they were protesting that we were violating their privacy, I told them if you are living in a dormitory where you are 100 people, there is no privacy. Where you have the security of those 100 children, then CCTV cameras where it is recording day and night becomes a necessity for purposes of making sure that these boys do not do this. This particular boy who was the ring leader of this fire lit this dormitory that was built 30 or 40 years ago simply because he was tired of that school and wanted to go for the weekend for a funeral of his relative. Since he was denied the opportunity, they bought paraffin and burnt the dormitory and we almost lost a student. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is not just indiscipline. It is bad upbringing and carelessness. I recently sat in a disciplinary committee where this boy just confessed that he buys bhang somewhere in Kinoo. He did not see anything wrong about smoking it in school and in the corridors. I am aware of the students in Nairobi who are engaging in gunrunning. If boards are not careful, these boys are not only going to burn dormitories, but do even worse things. I have told the Committee on Education before that they must tell these students. I am glad that Sen. (Dr.) Milgo is here. If you burn a car on the streets, you are a criminal and will go in for crime. If you are student and you burn a dormitory, you are supposed to be treated the same. If you carry a gun on the streets, you will be treated like a criminal. If you carry a gun or bhang to school and you are found in the streets of Nairobi, like Kenyatta Avenue, you will be treated like a criminal. Why are students who behave like this treated as if they are children? People say, ‘Ooh, please, woiye, these are children.” No, these are criminals. When you make a mistake and a person loses a family member like they lost in Moi Girls High School---"
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