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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. I want to thank Hon. Yegon for bringing it up. The beginning of a child’s life on this planet shapes their future. It is, therefore, important that the nation takes care of such a child. The mistakes and offences that a parent commits, whether the parent is a father or a mother, should not be allowed to affect the life of this child forever. A child not only learns from the parents, but also from the society. What happens at home shapes the future of a child. A child begins to see someone within the community as his or her role model. It is usually the norm that a child is taken to prison with the mother, and not with the father. If a child is sent to prison together with his or her mother, who will the child have as a role model? Will it be one of the jail birds in prison? Allowing the child to go through such kind of situation is a failure on the part of the nation. It is failing everybody. I, therefore, support the idea of creating a programme that will make the child continue with the normal experience of growing in life so that a child can find a more effective, useful, beneficial and productive life when they mature. It is important that we compel the Government, as my colleague mentioned, to come up with a programme that can be practical for the life of the child and not make the child see the horrors that happen in jail. If children are allowed to go through that experience, they will be part of the bad things happening in jail."
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