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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon, Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Motion, as amended. The reason why I support this Motion is this: We are saying that the Government should do this and that. As parents, we want to take care of our boys and girls. When a six-year old boy sees you making beer at home, or when you take your children to a bar to buy them chips and chicken and you drink beer with your wife, you cannot tell those children that it is not good to drink beer. Some people buy beer which is sold in plastic papers and take it home. They then drink it and throw the empty sachets outside. Children would want to try what their parents are drinking. When they test, they think it is something good because their parents take it. Even if we tell our Government to help us, we also need to help ourselves. As parents, we need to have discipline. When we were young, our fathers used to go out to drink and when they came home drunk, they did not want their children to see them. The Government is me, you and the people who are out there. We want to discipline our children because, sometimes, we leave them thinking that, because they have been to secondary school, they are grown-ups. We give them pocket money. When they come back home, instead of giving them something to do, we leave them to do whatever they want to do. However, we should show them somewhere to go and become busy – like camps, churches or where boys can play football and hockey. That is the way we can help this nation. We are losing our young boys and girls to alcoholism. Girls meet boys when they are drunk. A child is going to be brought home by a child of 12 or 13 years, who will have become a mother. How is that girl going to help herself? It is you who is going to suffer. I remember the late Wangari Maathai saying that those plastic papers are not good for our country. We are throwing them anywhere and there is nobody who is responsible. Boys and people who are out there collect those papers and they give them to bars where they are used to package the drinks which they drink. We need to help this nation. We want to work as one team, as parents and as a Government to help this country. If we are not going to help our country, we are going to lose the men. Nowadays, girls do better than boys in school. Boys feel that they have been abandoned since we talk more of the girl-child. We also want to help those boys. I also want to tell male parents to help their sons. Previously, we used to see men sitting down with their young boys talking to them and explaining to them how to behave when they reach certain ages. Our mothers also used to tell girls how to behave when they get to different stages. However, we now do not have time for our children because we are so busy looking for school fees and what they will eat. As God said, let us help our children. We do not want to be punished like priest Ezekiel who was punished by God because of the behaviour of his children. So, let us help this nation. This House is the 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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