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    "id": 328713,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": ", seven stones, rounders, hoola hoop and all those games. It is because we played all those games that some of our brains are very active and alive. The other day I was asking why a lot of young people are committing suicide. It is because we are not enabling children to just be children. They need to be children; they need to play. The games that our children play nowadays are games that encourage children to be very unfriendly. For example, the play station and all games that do not involve interaction with other children. That is why we need to provide very specifically on that. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would want to move an amendment. I know what I am raising has been controversial in the past because I raised it in this House, in relation to the value 4(f); the advancement and protection of every child to be instructed in the language of his or her choice where this is reasonably practicable. I know as a human right activist, it sounds as a very nice thing. I grew up in a small town in Homa Bay where I was born and brought up. One of the things I can say for a fact is that in the school I went to, our medium of instruction in school was English and Kiswahili. Because of that, it in a way enhanced the issue of integration. We were asking ourselves the other day that we had a lot of people from different ethnic communities and we had no clue because the language had a unifying effect around us. I went to primary school with all communities such as Somalis, Kikuyus, Indians and the “white” people. But we used two languages of instruction; English and Kiswahili. After I left that school, a new policy was introduced and they said the medium of instruction is the language of the surrounding community. They started using Dholuo as the medium of instruction in that school. This is a town school where there are very many mixed students. The standard of education plummeted immediately. Indeed, I boast of very many people that I went to school with---"
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