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    "speaker_name": "Marsabit County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naomi Waqo",
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    "content": "and teachers. In normal circumstances, a girl is supposed to defend herself and refuse sexual advances. However, they are misled in many ways such that they get into trouble. At the end of the day, they end up depressed. Thus, mental healthcare is another area we must focus on. We need to have counselling departments in every school so that learners who have had such challenges can be counseled. This will help them to overcome the challenges. All health centres should also have counselling department so that those who suffer from mental health can get help. Sex education is very important. It is paramount. It is better for us to educate young people now. Prevention is better than cure. We should not wait for problems to occur. We are already in a mess as a country because too many young people are out of schools as a result of lack of sex education. Many of them are infected and affected by the challenges they have encountered. It is time for us, as parents, to sit with our children and talk to them. Even before schools introduce sex education, it is good for us to encourage every parent to talk about these issues with their children. We should go back to our traditions where parents or grandparents sit with children and have some discussion in the evening. Many people are busy these days but during the holidays it is good for us to introduce family time so as to be with our children and grandchildren. This will enable us to talk about these important subjects. Our children are suffering for lack of knowledge in some areas. No one is able to talk to them as parents are too busy. Grandparents feel that the children are more educated than them and, therefore, they have nothing to offer. It is time for us to encourage grandparents and parents to sit with their children and talk. We need to go back to our cultural practices where parents would sit with their children and discuss everything. As Africans, we avoided talk about sex matters, but it is high time we opened up and discussed those issues with our children. The rate at which our young girls are getting pregnant and dropping out of school is something that we need to talk about seriously. This will help us salvage the situation. Where there is no vision, people perish. Visionary leaders and parents talk about the future, the past and the current. We are preoccupied with different things and businesses that we have no time for our children. It is high time that, as a nation, we came up with a culture of sitting down with our children and discussing not just sex matters but also matters to do with the economy, marriage life and other things. Many young people are suffering in marriage because they cannot sustain themselves. Young men are not faithful and girls get married to people who frustrate them thus they suffer bringing up children. Proper education and teaching our children the right thing to do at the right time is the only way that can save the situation we are in currently. I congratulate Hon. Jane Maina for coming up with this very important Motion to help the current and future generations. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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