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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Despite the fact that the Mover was not here, I have the side of this Motion. To me, I cannot see how we can say having a chaplain in a school is expensive. Look at the converse of that. Recently, when we came face to face with the burning of schools by students, some of the reasons were that parents no longer have enough time to bring up kids. They are very busy trying to look for economic strength to send them to school, clothe them, and feed them and all that. That is so much so that there must be somebody else in the society who can pay attention to challenges those young people are facing. I read a lot in the newspaper. It was clear that the young people of now are very fragile. When they get challenges and there is nobody they can turn to, we have witnessed even cases of suicide like in the universities where some students used school fees to gamble. When they realised they had no money, were there someone they could turn to and relate the story, maybe, they would have been counselled. Chaplains are very key in such institutions because those are people who are learned in human psychology. The human brain is very delicate. It can be twisted to whichever direction by people who have studied human psychology. Children who are in boarding schools are very far from their homes. When they have challenges like disciplinary issues or where they feel the administration is not giving them enough room to express themselves, maybe, they would turn to chaplains in the schools. When we talk of issues of spiritual matters, we cannot divorce spiritual matters with learning. Those are people who are growing. They need to be complemented so much so that they become holistic in their studies. We know, for sure, academics are not enough to bring out an all rounded human being. To me, this is something we cannot compromise on as a nation, unless we do not care about our tomorrow. We should do those things for posterity. That is so that we have well rounded people to whom we can turn over the running of our nation in the days to come. If the burning schools is anything to go by, there must be some lack of backbone for our young people to be able to say: “This is wrong. We should not do it”. Why is it that it is so easy 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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