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    "id": 1268879,
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    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Benjamin used to be my Chairperson in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. When he left to serve as an ambassador, he forgot how he should behave in Parliament. As I was saying, we need to inculcate good values. The value system has been eroded. We cannot have young children who go on trips and weekends without supervision. Boys and girls go for sports trips or some other trips without adult supervision and they get away with dirty mischief. You will notice that this mostly happens in rural areas where there is not much information. We need to deal with this matter comprehensively so that we can get our children back. The innocence of our children should not be taken away by the things they do and then we regret later. There are many girls who drop out of school because of experimenting things in one way or the other. We also need to teach children that drugs are not good for them. We need to secure our schools from predators because, indeed, they are there. You will find somebody selling drugs outside every school. Drugs are a health issue. Once they get into the system, the children will not study or do anything. They will become zombies. We need to tackle that and enforce the 300-metre rule on the distance between places that sell alcohol and schools. If you go to Nairobi and other urban areas, you will find bars and clubs which are less than 50 metres away from schools. When children go out from school, they definitely see people drinking and they will probably want to try. We have issues where underage children are being sold alcohol. We need to educate the children that this is not the time for them to drink alcohol, if ever they have to do it. As a practising Muslim, I can say that you should not even drink alcohol but some people do. We need to stop selling alcohol near schools, as well as enlighten our people and children on the legal implications of doing so. Lastly, I would like to ask the Member a question because she is a lawyer. Let us arrest the people who impregnate adolescents, that is, children of ages nine years to 18 years. Let us take their parents to court. There is no point in letting them get away with it. Normally, they pay off the victims’ parents so that they are not taken to court. Let us take those parents to court in order to stop this menace. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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