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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if, for example, you lost sight at your age, it would be something very difficult because you will see darkness, and you have been seeing light. Now, you start seeing darkness and you cannot walk the way you are walking. Therefore, you will require some psychological and some professional counselling. This cannot be done by a layman, unless you understand that being disabled is not death; it is not a normal thing and anybody can be disabled. If you do not understand this, it is very difficult to deal with these cases. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I pointed out earlier that some of the issues which are of great importance is the family. Among families are children and other members of the community, and they may also get the elements of behaviour that need to be checked. Such behaviour--- Even grown-ups like ourselves get to drink something like alcohol. We can easily slip into alcoholism unless we check ourselves. But more importantly, it actually takes place and there are people who are alcoholic. These people can be helped out of it where counselling is in place, and proper rehabilitation centres are provided. You can deal with people suffering from alcoholism and help them out of it. Equally so for drugs abuse. We are experiencing it; it has been on the rise. We recently even passed a Motion to create an authority to help to check on drug use and addiction in this country. But counsellors are very important when it comes to rehabilitating people suffering from alcoholism, people who are addicted to drugs, people with sexual adjustment problems. If you have had one of your kin involved in rape, it is usually very difficult to come out of it. If they were children and they grow up, when they get to the time of getting married, it is usually very difficult when they imagine the experiences they went through at that particular moment. This is service which can be provided by a counsellor who is properly trained, who is May 9, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1193 qualified and can get this person out of that problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, institutions with young people, even these colleges and universities, require this service. It is then that you can check the conduct of the student, you can easily harmonise matters within their specific areas and ensure that they grow up as good citizens. Even churches. There is even an example of one church which is located in Kisumu. This is the Holy Ghost Coptic Church of Africa, which is based in Kisumu. I understand they help people with mental illness. They pray for them. So, they lock up patients who are referred to as \"mad people\". I am told that it is found in the Speaker's constituency."
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