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    "id": 696153,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1750,
        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Recently, you saw the riots that affected our schools. Instead of the children protesting in a civilized manner, they burn their dormitories. The Mover of this Motion is trying to come up with a solution that will help us move the nation forward and, probably, curb the problems that we are facing. The question is this: What punishments are available for school managers today? With the new Constitution, the hands of school managers are tied. In the past, there was corporal punishment, which is now a thing of the past; it was banned. It is one of the things that were keeping our children on the straight and narrow road. It has been removed and we cannot punish them in that manner. That is one of the problems we are facing as a nation because I know that you spare the rod and you spoil the child. Previously, you could send children on detention. You would isolate them and lock them up for a period of time so that they could think about the wrongs they had done. The Constitution bars that from being done. I have experienced situations where school managers have landed in trouble because of locking up children, say, in a library or in an isolated room for the mistakes they have done. We are talking about a Constitution which insists on giving the child the very best but, when they do wrong, it does not give us solutions. This is what is happening. I want to propose certain solutions. This will enhance my colleague’s proposal on chaplains. We need to improve the observation of our children in school. Probably, through a Motion, we can propose introducing Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in our institutions, so that whatever happens in school can be seen by directors, managers or principals from their offices. For anything that happens, there will be a record so that nobody can go against it or end up going to court to say something happened and they deny it. Therefore, it is important to look into that possibility."
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