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    "id": 675438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "morning that he was meeting the Senate Committee on Education. I am on record asking what he was doing in the Senate, while what is being burnt is not a nursery school but our high schools. The Office of the Speaker must really pronounce itself as to the various mandates of the various Committees and whether our colleagues in the Senate are creating committees outside their mandate, thereby disorganising our operations as committees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with other speakers who have spoken that what we have is a question of security and the culture we are bringing up as a nation. We must rethink what we want our children to be like. As the National Assembly, we must decide what we want to do with our schools. We cannot tie the hands of our administrators. There is absolutely no form of punishment in high schools today. You cannot pinch or give a place to dig because that will be abuse. There is nothing you are supposed to do as an administrator of a school. You are then told to take charge or take care. What are these people supposed to do? We must start engaging our security forces, including the police to take care of our institutions. In the case of Awendo School of Excellence, there were students who were suspected to have burnt their dormitory. They were roaming in the village and they were not within the school compound. What is the principal supposed to do? If something of this nature happens in a sub- county or county and the OCPD or County Commander of Police is around and no adequate action is taken, it might not be right to only blame the head teacher. Security officers are going scot free and yet property belonging to the public is going up in flames. As a nation, we must decide whether we want to have our cake and eat it. Therefore, we must give the teachers a mechanism of dealing with indiscipline rather than tying their hands and wanting them to take charge of those institutions. Thank you very much, for allowing me to make my contribution."
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