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    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I will be economical with time because I do not want to belabour much on what my ctolleagues have said. At the outset, let me thank the Mover of the Motion, my good friend from Kirinyaga, Hon. Njeri. This is comprehensive health education. It does not limit us to sex only, but also addresses nutritional issues when one is encountered with health problems. In developed worlds, most of them have included this in their curriculum. It is high time we instituted the same and started educating our children on health reproduction. There are some advantages that we are going to have when we introduce this in our curriculum. Our children are going to understand their biological make-up and majority of them will have no issues when they encounter some diseases that we experience on a daily basis, especially those related to personal hygiene. If we introduce this in our education system, we are also going to prevent venereal diseases. It will also prevent teenage pregnancies which have been experienced in the recent times. Our children will understand the best time to engage in certain things. For me, being a Christian and a staunch Catholic believer, I believe that the only solution to everything is starting the right thing at the right time. I believe that one should start having sex when they are married, and that is my principle. I thank God because I have been able to adhere to the same. Abstinence is one of the key issues. We need to teach our students to adhere to it and we will never experience any issue. We have been experiencing what we call diminishing child population in our schools. Due to early pregnancies. Some of them experience it because they lack information. By introducing this into our education system, it will manage population in our schools and every responsible child will have proper parental guidance. I recall the times when we used to interact with our grandparents. They used to teach us many things. Nowadays, I do not see a lot of that happening in terms of mentoring of children. It is high time we emulated our parents before we start educating our kids on how to handle marriage, for example, how a girl is supposed to please a man and vice versa. I am not talking about a girl who is under the age of 18 years, but one who is above that age. I believe that this Motion would bring more advantages than disadvantages. We are going to experience a society that is morally upright. When it comes to issues of nutrition, there are times when our children, especially the girls, go through their menstrual cycle. The ones who experience it the first time do not even understand what is happening to their bodies. By bringing this to their attention in school, a girl will not be ashamed to discuss the issue with her parents, friends, or anybody like a health worker. There are boys who have even come to my office suffering from venereal diseases but feel ashamed to discuss it. That will not happen anymore because we need to seek health attention. By educating our children on how to handle all these matters, we will be allowing for a healthy population which will ensure an increased population. With those few remarks, I support."
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