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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kahangara",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Mburu Kahangara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to what other members have said. Indeed, we have seen issues of moral decay in our schools. I thank the Member who has brought the Motion about deploying and ensuring that we have chaplains in our schools. Although this has been happening, I think the main problem is that the chaplaincy has been absent. We are all aware that we have the sponsors in our schools, who are either the churches or the Muslims and their mosques. However, besides being given the responsibility of looking after those institutions, you realize that most of them do not even know what they are supposed to do. What I have seen with the issue of sponsors is that when we form e Boards of Management (BOMs) in the schools, most of the time, what they do is they ensure that they have representation within the BOMs. However, when it comes to the issue of guidance and counseling and the Christian values that they are supposed to instill in the students; that does not happen. It is timely for us to urge the Government to ensure that we have the chaplaincy and the chaplains are in the schools so that they can give proper guidance to the students in our schools. What we are experiencing in this country is unprecedented. Virtually, when you look back to the days when we were in school, we did not have the kind of things we are seeing today like sexual orgies. We have seen students engage in such things when they are going for games or going home from school. They hire matatus from Nairobi and other areas and misbehave along the way. This indicates that there is a lot that needs to be done. Whatever is being done by the parents and in the schools through guidance and counseling is not enough and, indeed, we need chaplains. The sponsors in our schools must also take up their roles. Theirs is not just to be in the BOMs. They must ensure that, at least, every week, there is an opportunity for students to be guided on Christian and Muslim values within the lessons so that we can bring up children in the proper way."
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