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    "id": 490935,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Kennedy Mong'are Okong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion which has been brought here by a mother, educationist and above all, a legislator. These kinds of Motions are long overdue considering the magnitude of cases affecting the young ones in the countryside. If a policy like this is effectively enacted by both the national and the county governments, the young mothers could also live productive lives. Some of them could also excel very well in the area of sports, especially athletics, if there was a policy to take care of their children who are a burden to them. This Motion complies with the constitutional requirement of education to our citizens. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 gave hope, aspirations and dreams to all Kenyans. That is why I support this Motion and encourage others to support it so that that our children who have children can also be part and parcel of our society. Three years ago, I watched a clip on television of a very visionary leader in the North Rift who had come up with a secondary school of young mothers. Subsequently, when the examination results were released, young mothers who had two or three children each scored a “B” plain. This Motion is in line with that. We need to engage the national and county governments to come up with mechanisms of caring for the young children – who are a burden - who have made the young mothers to become beggars. This has also made young mothers to engage in illicit sex so as to take care of their young children. As you move in the streets of Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Kisii, you will get astonished by these tragedies. Parents have failed. Schools have also failed to enact systems to arrest these kinds of unfortunate scenarios. It is important that the Government intervenes so that we move towards a direction where our young ones will be part and parcel of the development of our counties. The society, as it were in the times of our able Senator, Senator No.1, G.G. Kariuki, looked at these scenarios extensively. However, now that we have adopted capitalist ideologies, some matters have been left to individuals. During the earlier days of the 1960s and 1970s, there were systems of addressing these situations. However, now that we have moved to follow the Western culture, these are the calamities we are facing. Recently, I visited Kisumu and met a girl who got a child at 15. She came from a very poor background and was yearning to go to school. The girl is now 19 and can be 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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