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    "id": 679325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/679325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M’uthari",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In this particular time, many of our children and citizens have lost their sense of responsibility and morality. We are asking the Government to resolve this by providing chaplains to our institutions especially secondary schools and higher institutions. It is an important aspect given the fact that we lack people with values and morals. This has made us have children who react in bad ways as a way airing their grievances. We are faced with situations where only this term more than 100 schools have been burnt down. This has led to destruction of property. All this behaviour being exhibited in our schools end up in public. Such behavior is even seen in adults and it is as a result of poor upbringing. Parents seem to be very busy or have lost responsibility. Upbringing of young people seems to be a serious challenge. The Government should come up with criteria for recruiting chaplains. It can also include school sponsors if it is difficult for the Government to employ a chaplain for every institution. However, schools that are within a particular neighbourhood can share a chaplain employed by the Government to ensure there is proper teaching and formation of our young people. We are investing a lot of resources as a country. If you look at the money we appropriate in this House, you will see that education takes the lion’s share. About 30 per cent of our Budget goes to the education sector. If we educate people who have no morals and values, and are not properly prepared, then the result is what we see at the moment. Radicalisation and other vices that we see within our society are as a result of lack of proper formation. If the Government invests in proper formation of our young people, we can have a nation that is bound by proper religious values. Most of the people in our country are either Christians or Muslims, and having proper education from childhood is the way to go. These chaplains should also train our teachers in higher institutions of learning. We can have chaplains in colleges so that students are trained properly through religious education. This will involve values, morals and principles. It also becomes important to have a sense of responsibility. Chapter Four of our Constitution has a lot of issues concerning rights. However, our Constitution has nothing about responsibilities for our young people. It is for this reason that we have even seen the Constitution being abused in many cases through picketing and unnecessary 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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