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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for bringing, and being very persistent about, this Bill. As he mentioned, we discussed this Bill in the Ninth Parliament. It lapsed. He and I did not make it back to the Tenth Parliament and now we have come back in the Eleventh Parliament, and it has been revived. I think this is a Bill that brings discipline. This is a Bill that brings order in the field of counseling and psychology. This is a Bill that brings hygiene. This is a Bill that is going to make sure that you can recognize and go to a counselor or psychologist, somebody who is properly trained, properly registered and somebody you can have complete trust in. As things stand now in this country, it is not easy-- Sometimes it is very difficult to tell who is a counselor or a psychologist because a lot of things are not known. We do not know about the training, and how long it takes. We do not know what it takes to be registered. It is not clear what should be done if we have an errant psychologist or counselor. That is what this Bill is going to do. It is going to bring order. We live in a country that is going through a lot of turmoil. We live in a country where people and the world at large are going through very difficult times. We have difficulties in our marriages. Most of the marriages these days do not last. We are going through times where we have a lot of catastrophes. We have not healed from the post- election violence. Recently we saw a young man from Mombasa who was shot plus the mother; the mother died but the young man survived. We do not know what the family is going through. All these people and many more are best helped by counselors and psychologists. We have seen problems in Bungoma, where a mother and her three daughters were brutally murdered after being raped by one individual. We do not know what the husband and the relatives of this poor lady and her daughters are going through. All these people will be helped by counselors and psychologists. In Bungoma recently, we had a whole village--- Gangsters walked into that village and slashed everybody at sight. We do not know what that village is going through and all those people will be helped by counselors and psychologists. As I said, we are going through difficult times. We have to be 100 per cent sure that these professionals are properly trained and retrained, and there is a system for providing continuous education. We have to know that these people are properly registered, that there are certain minimum standards that they will have. We have to know that if they The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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