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    "id": 246954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246954/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
        "slug": "kilemi-mwiria"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry has well stipulated guidelines on how to deal with students discipline cases in all secondary schools in this country. Students bullying and sexual harassment among others, are handled by teachers at the school with reference to individual school rules. (b) The matter I am referring to today is on the alleged sexual assault on a Form Two student of Upper Hill Secondary School who was admitted to Nairobi Women's Hospital on 30th May, 2006. The Ministry has alerted the police and investigations into this matter have been instituted. A high powered delegation from the Ministry, which included the Assistant Minister who is my colleague, Mrs. Mugo who is also the Member of Parliament for the area visited the school yesterday. Again, she had a meeting with the Board of Governors (BOG), the hospital administration and the parents at the hospital. The alleged sexual assault student is still traumatised to be subjected to any rigours interviews. Really, there is a great deal we have to learn from the student. A more comprehensive report would only be available at the end of the investigations which are still under-way. (c) The Ministry has handed over the matter to the police for thorough investigations so that the perpetrators of the alleged sexual assault could be apprehended and taken to court. (d) Involvement of the Ministry on issues of medical and rehabilitation expenses is not applicable since we do not have a budgetary allocation for that. However, the point I want to make here is that investigations are under-way. Until the student can give us more information, we cannot come to any conclusion as to what exactly happened."
}