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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this young girl must be having a lot of strength in her character. I believe that maybe earlier on, her parents might have wanted her to do something, the society must have expected something else, her peers could have encouraged her to do something else, but going by what I have noticed in her speeches and her presentation, she has the kind of intelligence that qualifies her to just become about anything. However, she chose to do something that she believes in. Not many of us, especially parents, will encourage and invest in an intelligent child who qualifies to be a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer, but who chooses to be an actor. For us, we have not come to the level of appreciating that any career is good enough. There are four things that we can learn from this individually as parents, as a society and as a nation. First, we need to invest in early childhood education as we debated in this Chamber before, to allow us to search for such talents and to nurture them and encourage them and then promote them to the right academies where such talents can be nurtured and even to have our children going abroad to those academies. The second lesson that we learn is that, as parents, teachers, leaders, society and as a nation, we should respect career choices of the youth. We must learn to appreciate that while you think somebody might be a good doctor, appreciate when that person insists on becoming a nurse. Let us also learn that through these kinds of achievements, the Government should walk the talk and provide the infrastructure development and the finances that will encourage these kinds of talents. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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