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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "We now have the Free Primary Education (FPE) programme in place. However, this is of no benefit to the orphans of this country. First, they cannot afford to buy uniforms. Secondly, they cannot get food. You cannot study if you have not eaten. We do not provide free health care. Therefore, those children have to provide that for themselves. In fact, maybe as the Bible says, orphans belong to God. He is the one who provides for their good health such that they do not fall ill very often. However, they are very vulnerable to persuasion by social misfits in the society. These are people who want to take advantage over them, and presumably provide them with the luxuries of this world. They end up using these children as labourers, as if it is slavery labour. So, the FPE programme does not benefit these children. The religious culture where churches and mosques used to take interest in this vulnerable group does not exist any more. We have all gone Western and become materialistic. There is conspicuous consumption. That is where we are today. We buy 100 suits like Mrs. Marcos of Philippines who bought 5,000 pairs of shoes in her lifetime and, yet she could not wear them in her lifetime. That is what we do, and yet we have people in our country who walk literally naked. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you know, food, shelter and health are essential needs of a human being. Who provides those essential needs to those children? I believe that this Motion, just like other Motions which have been passed in this House, will be passed to enable the Mover to bring the Bill to this House. This will force the Government to provide for these children. I also want to make an appeal to the media. Let them sensitise Kenyans about these vulnerable groups instead of harping day in, day out what NARC(K) and ODM have done. Can they not, for a change, focus on these vulnerable groups? Just imagine if you died today and your small children are orphaned because your wife is not also there. Just imagine what your children would go through. I wish the media would have feature stories to address such issues. The media can come up with 100 feature stories from my constituency alone. If they did that throughout the country, they would get 21,000 stories of cases of vulnerable children, who are orphans. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to know why the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has never addressed itself to this vulnerable group. We pay the Director over Kshs500,000 a month, but he has never addressed the rights of these vulnerable group; the orphans. He only talks when Ngilu or Angwenyi are arrested. Angwenyi and Ngilu can defend themselves! Can he focus on changing this country and use his resources to help the orphans of this country? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to allow other hon. Members to contribute, I would like to support and commend the hon. Member who moved this Motion. I beg to support."
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