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    "id": 222616,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. O.K. Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Kihara Mwangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, he said that prayer alone cannot work. I am telling him that prayer can work a lot. That notwithstanding, the question of psychological and counselling training is very important. In fact, I am very surprised that the Government has not, up to now, brought to this House a Bill; it had to wait until somebody brought in a Motion seeking the same. The reason for that is that psychology is required in almost every field of our lives. Psychology is required in education, health, in matters of security, in judicial matters, in the police, et cetera . Almost every sphere of Government operations requires psychological input, the reason being that most of the problems that we face today, as a nation, emanate from psychological problems. If you consider the problems you get in hospitals, where nurses neglect their duties, if they had a trained psychologist, who guides them in their career, they would not afford to let patients suffer when they just relax. We have had spates of strikes in our schools. Sometimes, when you look at these strikes, you will find that they emanate from a problem of psychology, because somebody just did not address a simple problem. That failure led to a lot of chaos and loss of property. If you look at the police, you will find officers behaving in a manner that is not called for. If there was a trained psychologist within the police force, who guides officers as to how they should handle their duties, you would not find the confrontations that people have with police officers, particularly where officers just shoot somebody because they think that, that person is a thug. They need to know how to behave and how to approach every problem. That would only be found in a properly trained psychologist. That can only come when we have an established mechanism for training psychologists and counsellors, who will handle every field. In matters of security, when you think about the behaviour of Mungiki adherents today, you will realise that their actions emanate from lack of proper guidance by a psychologist. This is just a matter of behaviour. The way one reacts tells you that, that person has not been coached - and is not sure - on how he should live in society."
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