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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Iman. As a young mother, I am sure she is concerned and would like something done about this. I would like to also mention that there is a general sense of lawlessness, desperation, mental health issues or breakdown that is going on in our society. You saw what happened on Wangari Maathai Road the other day and many other places. People are turning on each other as our police men turn their weapons on people they are supposed to protect. We even have cases of suicide. Something wrong is happening. Beyond us, looking at the caregivers or domestic workers that are abusing our children, the majority of domestic workers are good people. They work for us and have been of great help especially for us working mothers, to make sure that we come here and work. There is this general breakdown, lawlessness, lack of values and desperation that our country is experiencing, which is making people take it out on the person close to them. I am not excusing it where criminal offences have been committed but we must look at the wellbeing and welfare of our children. This is especially as more and more mothers go to work. Women have to fend for their children and the only option they have is to leave their children with domestic workers. A majority of domestic workers are very good, decent human beings. The few that have done these things are also part of the society, which is now becoming really desperate. Mr, Temporary Speaker, Sir, as leaders, I do not know what we need to do. I do not think laws, legislations and statute laws will help us. We need to look at what is happening. Why are our people so desperate as to turn on each other, minors and women? Violence is being normalised at every level. Therefore, we need to get to the bottom of this. Sen. Iman has done well to highlight this area. Every section should be looked at, where there are these kind of things where we are turning on each other and the people that are most vulnerable. Going forward, there is going to be a scary picture of our country’s social fabric disintegrating. Why is this so? I do not know if it is poverty or just general indiscipline. We need to do something not just as leaders but as a country. We need to start looking at values."
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