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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": "That is one area where we will require psychologists and counsellors, so that such problems can be minimised. Likewise, when it comes to the Provincial Administration, the chiefs and sub-chiefs sometimes arrest people and detain them. If they had any psychological guidance, they would not be behaving in the manner that they do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same applies to the courts of law. You will find a magistrate or Judge giving a sentence which is not reasonable. When such rulings are taken to the Court of Appeal they are either revised or dismissed, because there was lack of psychological advice. This happens because, maybe, the Judge or magistrate, at the time of making a ruling, was suffering under stress. In fact, I can recommend that we also need political psychologists, because at times some politicians make decisions or utterances which cause lots of problems to the society, including even clashes and bloodshed. These things happen as a result of psychological problems. If we had trained political psychologists or counsellors, such problems would not be recurring. Many a times, this nation ends up paying a very big price, just because we have neglected one area, which is, the training of psychologists and licensing them, so that we can eliminate quacks. This will ensure that May 9, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1199 we have a proper and guided psychological and counselling profession. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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