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    "id": 1150926,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": "(j) not to destroy any property. There is just a correction in the first part. There is a word “any” that is missing. We are saying “in any matter before a court of law” so that it is grammatically correct. In the second part, in paragraph “b”, we want to make sure that the best interest of a child is taken into account even when we are giving children duties. Finally, I seek to insert new sub paragraphs immediately after paragraph (e), to insert sub- paragraphs (f), (g), (h), (i) and (j). If you notice, the duties we are giving to our children under the Bill are very utopian. One of the things that those of us who support children’s rights have been accused of is that we over- emphasise the rights of children against their duties and so our children grow up completely out of control. So I propose duties that are real and that relate to the day-to-day lives of children, including the duty to attend school, unless prevented by factors beyond their ability, and the duty not to discriminate against other children, which is very common. We have seen children commit suicide because they are being mistreated. The other duties are the duty to protect the environment, the duty not to abuse or harm other children and the duty not to destroy property. What I am proposing will ensure that children begin to have real duties, not utopian ones like taking care of cohesion in East Africa. Those are things they will think about. At 10 years, a child does not know what East Africa is. They know about attending school and being responsible enough not to harm other children. Thank you."
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