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    "id": 434010,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/434010/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Let me take this opportunity to thank hon. Wamunyinyi and say that sometimes we have disasters such as floods, and other sorts of disasters like road accidents. There are even attacks like in areas where there are banditry attacks, and other forms of attacks as recently witnessed here in Nairobi and other places. People who are affected by these attacks suffer trauma; in most cases they have no one to assist them. Therefore, I support this Bill; during its further consideration in Committee Stage in the august House, we will move appropriate amendments to benefit as many people as possible. The Government should also come in to assist people who go through trauma but are not able to afford professional psychologists to attend to them. Immediately people go through trauma, it changes their history and perception of things. Therefore, they need counseling services, so that they can have a new beginning in their lives. They need to feel safe again because it is something which threatens their lives. They need to come back to normal. The moment such people are not assisted and there is no provision for the Government to assist them under the law, then it is likely that they will never recover. They are the ones who end up revisiting the society with social evils like turning into terrorists or supporting sadistic actions; this is because they happen to have never recovered from trauma and they do not appreciate that they should be having a good life. This is a very important Bill and I support it."
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