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    "id": 1150690,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I beg to move: THAT, Clause 13 of the Bill be amended- (a) in subsection (1) by deleting the words “In addition to the right to basic education guaranteed under section 12,”; (b) in subsection (2) by inserting the words “the government and” immediately after the words “responsibility of”; (c) in subsection (3) by inserting the words “in estates and villages” immediately after the words “specific areas”. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, if you may notice, the Bill says: “In addition to the right to basic education guaranteed under section 12…” then, it talks about the right to leisure as if it hangs on the right to education. We have children who may not have the ability to enjoy the right to education but they still have a right to leisure and play. It is important that we have that right as a stand-alone. Secondly, that right is not just the responsibility of parents; it is a responsibility of the Government and parents. Playing spaces should be deliberately created in our estates and villages. Nowadays, we do development without regard to the fact that children have a right to play. If you go to my constituency, locally, people know that if you go to places like Pap-Kogweno, Pap- Kanyang’ore and others, those are playgrounds for children. However, when counties come in, they take those playgrounds and make them other things. So, we must provide in our villages and estates facilities for children to play. When our children do not play they become deviant and come up with all manner of strange activities. Thank you."
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